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Crabs in a bucket

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by Paulo Coelho on October 19, 2011 I found this story from the blog of Paulo Coelho and it is very interesting....however, the story wrote by Sarah Robinson. Early evening was one of my favorite times to walk the beach with my mom and my older brothers. We were all clean and fed and slightly sun weary but still desperate to be outside. So, we would grab flashlights, dip nets and a bucket and search the ocean’s edge for crabs. More often than not, as a crab would begin to inch its way higher to the edge of the bucket, the other crabs would latch on to him and pull him back down.I watched this scenario play out again and again, year after year. Fast forward to this morning. As I was drinking my coffee and perusing my twitter stream, and up pops @paul0coelho (He wrote The Alchemist, one of my all time favorite books): “Only mediocrity is safe. Get ready to be attacked, and be the best.” I did a quick google search and discovered that “Crab Mentality” is actually an official phr