micethomasi

[micethomasi]

kinda hot out there

[micethomasi]

[10.07.17] 25/100 days of productivity 

I officially made the Mock Trial team (!!!!), so now I’m trying to get through about 150 pages of affidavits and rules before the next practice. 

[micethomasi]

success and solitude.

It's so sad what I come here to say, but in these last few days I realize that it is a truth in academic life. The more successful you get, the less people are actually happy for you. They always wish the best, they say you'll go far, get there but when it finally comes, they despise and clogs the look of envy, point out and say it was no big deal. They say to stop being proud and sing victory.

Gradually, after consecutive results, they stop validating their effort, as if what makes your heart jump for joy was banal and unimportant.  Of course, why congratulate those who are already well, if we can only look at those who could not? In this respect, I fully agree with Professor Schawn Achor of Harvard, who says that everything that has reached the average is blatantly ignored, which undoubtedly generates a median society. This half way is like curing depression without making a person happy. You only fight to eliminate the negative aspects, but you don't care about the positives either. 

This imposition of neutrality only generates a feeling of constant insufficiency in academic validation, as it is never enough to see others happy. This whole context increasingly isolates the "points outside the curve" and surrounds the "lucky" with frustration, one of the points that I believe collaborates for the high index of people with high IQ diagnosed with anxiety. 

Not preaching schmuckery but sometimes we just want to celebrate with loved ones and be happy for us. But being a successful one, comes with the supreme test of emotional intelligence.