Hrm 531 Week 2 Individual Assignment

In my lab meeting last week, my advisor talked about two new high school students are going to join our lab this summer. One of them is a kid who joined with us last year. I was working with him a few times. Surely, he is a bright kid, and now he is waiting to go to Standford University. For another kid, we haven't met. From my advisor's story, he seems to be a very bright kid with master degree skills.

The interesting part is members in the lab seem to feel a little jealous these kids. One of member explicitly said that when he was a high school student, he didn't have a chance to do any of these. Well, that member is a Master student by the way. Hum... In fact, I used to feel the same. If you are thinking closely about it, it is irrational. …show more content…
The feeling happens when you start comparing yourself to someone else, which we know that such comparison is irrational, because to correctly comparing to something, we need to compare every aspect, not just one visible aspect of things (a previous post, here). 2. I might be because of fear of being treated by the idea of these kids would steal our jobs? Well, not really. New jobs were born every day. By the time they ready for the job, you will know a lot more about that particular organization, or even be a management position that requires less and less technical skills. Even though nothing else is true, how likely that there are smart children compared to the rest of the population? Very few. 3. We know that in order to be successful, requiring more than just technical skills. 4. It is not a zero-sum game. The more smart people the better our world would be.

Whatever it is, it is their life, not yours. Then, the only person you should compare to is yesterday-self. I think the root cause of this is that we have a tendency to think too much about ourselves. Once we start thinking about a big picture as a whole, we should be gladful of having more smart people in our

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