Yeah but the difference is that you were always worse than a monkey or a mountain goat. And those are all worse than someone riding a helicopter to the top. So you didn’t had to change your mindset in this regard ever.
Imagine if you grow up where there are no monkeys, mountain goats or helicopter rides to the top. You never heard of them, they are not a thing in your world. And you put in hard work to become a very very good rock climber. You kinda fancy yourself an apex climber. Maybe your mate George is a bit faster than you sometimes, but sometimes you are faster than him. Sometimes Sarah beaths the both of you, but sometimes you beat her times. You are kinda up there with the bests as far as you know. And then suddenly someone brings a monkey to your rock climbing gym and the monkey smokes all of you. It climbs walls much better than you ever could. Now you have to adapt. Will you change your viewpoint and start seeing yourself as “best among humans” and keep competing like that? Or will you see yourself as “clearly outcompeted so badly I might even give up”? Some people will go one way, some the other way. And then the new generation will grow up with the knowledge of monkeys, and they all naturally will be only the first kind of people, who understand that they can’t be the best only best among their class.
Go players had their “the first monkey shows up in the climbing gym” moment during our lifetime. That is why you see some of the players react like that. That is a very different world from rock climbing where everyone already knows about monkeys, and mountain goats and helicopter rides since forever. Every person currently climbing rocks started climbing with the existence of monkeys, mountain goats and helicopters already incorporated into their thinking way before they climbed their first wall.
Imagine if you grow up where there are no monkeys, mountain goats or helicopter rides to the top. You never heard of them, they are not a thing in your world. And you put in hard work to become a very very good rock climber. You kinda fancy yourself an apex climber. Maybe your mate George is a bit faster than you sometimes, but sometimes you are faster than him. Sometimes Sarah beaths the both of you, but sometimes you beat her times. You are kinda up there with the bests as far as you know. And then suddenly someone brings a monkey to your rock climbing gym and the monkey smokes all of you. It climbs walls much better than you ever could. Now you have to adapt. Will you change your viewpoint and start seeing yourself as “best among humans” and keep competing like that? Or will you see yourself as “clearly outcompeted so badly I might even give up”? Some people will go one way, some the other way. And then the new generation will grow up with the knowledge of monkeys, and they all naturally will be only the first kind of people, who understand that they can’t be the best only best among their class.
Go players had their “the first monkey shows up in the climbing gym” moment during our lifetime. That is why you see some of the players react like that. That is a very different world from rock climbing where everyone already knows about monkeys, and mountain goats and helicopter rides since forever. Every person currently climbing rocks started climbing with the existence of monkeys, mountain goats and helicopters already incorporated into their thinking way before they climbed their first wall.