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The women's volleyball team won the Olympics. Everyone on the Internet who follows the Olympics and the women's volleyball team seems very excited. Lang Ping's reports and articles about the spirit of the women's volleyball team are also flooding WeChat Moments, and everyone has sent congratulatory messages to them.

Let us be less clichéd and more honest: we just want to win, we just want to be first!

The competition is not a fight to the death, with no winner or loser. Otherwise, what would we be watching while sitting in front of the TV on such a hot day and watching it enthusiastically? What we see is competitive fighting. We see masters killing rookies in seconds. What we see is the crushing of those with strong skills against those with weak skills. The crushing is accomplished through formal, civilized and rule-based competitions.

Therefore, let’s be more sincere: if you lose, admit that your skills are inferior to others, and don’t talk about “participation is the most important” and “friendship comes first, competition comes second.”

To be honest, if we want to build friendships, why don’t we just have a party? Why bother participating in the Olympics? We can also develop friendships by eating, drinking, singing and dancing!

If you really don’t care about results, why do people keep scolding the men’s football team and have been scolding them for many years?

If you really don’t care about results, then I think the men’s football team is pretty good. I have been involved in it for many years!

This kind of logic is really puzzling - saying that you don't care about results, while at the same time vigorously reporting and praising winning the gold medal. When will our mainstream psychological culture become more normal and stop being so distorted? It seems that if we go straight to the goal and focus on results, we will be very utilitarian and low. We have to be secretive and praise the great spirit, and it seems that we will appear to be high-minded.

The spirit of sports competitions is competition! Just want to get first place!

What is competition? It means to compare who is the best, who runs the fastest, who swims the fastest, who wins the most. Then you say you should pay attention to sportsmanship, and then you say you don’t pay attention to results. This What the hell are you talking about?

Is it important or not? ?

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From the perspective of mass psychology, the general public likes to watch exciting and exciting events, and competition is one of the projects that can bring such excitement.

From the perspective of individual psychology, comparison and competition are one of the important ways to determine social identity (that is, the position of oneself in the group). It is also a way for individuals to obtain more resources among the masses. proofs and guarantees.

The winner and the loser are the real social rules. It's just that modern society has become more civilized, giving you more fields to try. If you can't write well, you can still draw, and if you can't play ball, you can still swim. Our civilization has only expanded the areas where you can compete, but it has never changed this rule. .

This has been the case since we humans started walking upright and formed human society.

Limited and scarce resources make it impossible for everyone to enjoy them equally. It is competition and the plunder of limited resources that have formed human civilization in the long process of evolution and allowed us humans to climb to the top of the food chain.

Then, after you have secured your position as the leader in nature through competition, you then say, we want civilization, we want harmony, and everyone just needs to participate and don’t care about the results. This is not deceiving yourself or others.

Of course, it can also be interpreted as a kind of brainwashing of the weak by the strong, or a kind of self-consolation by the weak: "I can't win the championship, so it's good that I participated."

You don’t just want to win, you just want to participate. You can just run on the playground downstairs at home. Why bother to compete with the masters?

"I participated in the Olympics", this sentence seems to have a stronger meaning of participation, but behind it is also a manifestation of identity and ability level. I am an Olympic-level athlete, not a provincial representative team. It is also a kind of comparison and PK, and also has a yearning for higher victory.

Fu Yuanhui became famous, not because of being cute, but because people can act cute after winning medals. If you let those contestants who lost in a mess try to be cute, who will watch!

So don’t kid yourself.

Competition and comparison, this process is the redistribution of social resources and the remobilization of class elites. Through competition and comparison clearly stipulated in the system, everyone has the opportunity to join the upper class of society.

And this kind of opportunity to gain promotion through effective competition is a kind of psychological comfort for the general public, and it is also a real upward channel. If you have the ability, you may have a chance. Become elite. It will greatly promote social stability and allow ordinary people at the bottom to move up to a higher level and live a better life.

If a society does not have legal and reasonable competition channels and a mechanism for selecting elites, riots and revolutions will inevitably occur.

Do you dare to say that you want to stay in your current state for the rest of your life and are you willing to do this? You don’t want to get better, you don’t want to be more capable than anyone else on your team? Just to participate, are you worried that there is no upward path in your current job and want to change jobs?

Therefore, we should see things more thoroughly and understand more, and be more sincere to ourselves:

I just want to be the best!

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When can we say that participation is important?

It means that you have become the boss and won the first place, you have proven your strength, and you have reached the time when you can purely enjoy the fun of the game. It can be said that the results are not important, I am just here to have fun.

For example, if Davis comes back to play snooker today, he can say that "scores are not important." For another example, if the gymnastics prince back then comes back to participate in the gymnastics barbell competition today, he can say that "scores are not important."

Of course, these outstanding top athletes will definitely not say this. If they said this when they won the gold medal, you will see if anyone will scold them for showing off.

Only those who are truly qualified will not say that participation is important.

And we will sincerely say to the person who really won the first place, they deserve it!

What matters is participation? ! Huh? Huh?