Better

Most of us have this hope, that we are better than the others. It may happen during a competition, it may happen before or after an examination, heck, it could even happen when peeing to compete who finish pee-ing first!

The issue is, how do you hope that you are better than the others?

Basically there are two situations:

A - We are better when the others slack

B - We are better when we outperform the others even when they give their best shot

We sometimes hope that we can win because of others mistakes. Like in a football match, the opponent kicked an own goal. Like in a swimming competition, other contestants did not rest enough the day before. Or even like in the movie (3 idiots), where Chatur issued ero mag to the students before exam begins. 

I'm here not to condemn this but actually it is one of the many tactics businesses used (and continue using) to defeat their competitors. But before that we shall see the situation. If the reward is scarce, therefore impaling the competitors is a good way to success (ethics aside). If the reward is abundant, therefore it is no need to attack the other candidates but instead focusing on improving our ability to obtain the reward.