{"id":2563,"date":"2026-07-27T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:27:55","slug":"state-champ-county-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/state-champ-county-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"State champ or County Champ ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC2337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4771-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4771-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4771-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4771-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4771-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4771-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Compared to what?<\/p>\n<p>98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Every billionaire but one isnt the richest person in the world. Only one of the 300 people who direct a feature film each year will win an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>And only one public company has the greatest share price growth.<\/p>\n<p>Competition is often a useful source for fuel. In our scarcity-driven world, looking for external metrics might be a productive way to focus our energy or gather resources.<\/p>\n<p>But its also a trap.<\/p>\n<p>A trap that seduces us into accepting someone elses priorities.<\/p>\n<p>A trap that causes us to forget what got us here and to ignore our good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>And a trap that takes us out of this moment as it pushes us to imagine another one, less likely, in the future.<\/p>\n<p>When were captured by the death spiral of scarcity and dominance, were signing up for a journey thats all about the destination, a destination were quite unlikely to reach.<\/p>\n<p>Consider what made this worth doing in the first place. Why isnt that enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to what? 98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals. Every billionaire but one isnt the richest person in the world. Only one of the 300 people who direct a feature film each year will win an Academy Award. And only one public company has the greatest share price growth. Competition is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[2772,423,424,2752,2753,2754,2751,1673,56,2756,2740,2744,2749,55,390,2742,387,388,389,2755,2729,2724],"yst_prominent_words":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}