The showering of rewards on Indian olympians reminded me of my school.
Years ago my school was seeking donations.
I offered but with a condition!
The condition that the interest earned from my deposit will go towards the reward to the top few who show higher relative improvement in performance rather than rewarding the Top rankers.
My logic was that the Top rankers always and anyways get recognized. In the process, generally the Top talent stays at the top and the bottom end keeps struggling both because of two reasons.
One, the motivation of the reward and recognition reinforces the top to stay at the top.
At the other end, the demotivated non-rankers tend to lose interest and non performers refrain from getting into performance culture.
As expected, very few buy into radical ideas.
Is there cause there of why we can't produce more olympians?
No doubt that the rankers deserve their due having performed against all odds. But don't the others deserve at least the basic facilities and recognition to prepare themselves?
How does one do that?
Offer equal amount, attention and aid to others, if not more, especially to those who show higher relative improvement so that they provide tough competition to the toppers , enable them to be World toppers and in the process they themselves become toppers!
