Chapter 374: Failure to Sustainably Drain Fish
Jiang Yuan’s entire freshman year of high school finally came to an end, and the relaxing and leisurely summer vacation arrived as expected.

In fact, as a student in the competition class, according to the nature of Jiangzhou No. 1 Middle School, she would be taken out for a period of time during the summer vacation, and competition students like her would be "voluntarily" required to come to the school for intensive training.

After all, not long after school starts in September, the annual mathematics competition league will officially begin. This year's date seems to be September 8th. Therefore, students who are determined to achieve better results in the competition can only seize the summer vacation time to make another effort.

Jiang Yuan will definitely not waste her summer vacation time to go to school for the final intensive training. She has spent her efforts in normal times, or in other words, it is fun to use cheats for a while, and it is fun to use cheats all the time. Since she has cheats, of course she can really regard this kind of training as voluntary or not, and will not be forced to "voluntarily".

After all, a person's right to choose depends on his or her own ability. She is very confident that with her current strength, she can definitely stand out in the mathematics competition, so naturally there is no need to waste time to participate in summer training.

And to be honest, compared to the college entrance examination mathematics, the tactic of solving a large number of questions is not so useful for mathematics competitions. The latter requires higher comprehension, or it can be said that it requires more flashes of inspiration when solving problems. So for real geniuses, as long as they accumulate enough in their daily lives, and have a few more flashes of inspiration in the competition examination room, they will naturally be able to grasp it easily.

When it comes to the subject of mathematics, the deeper you learn, the more it requires talent. Previously, a blogger who runs a self-media platform interviewed a certain province's top scorer in the college entrance examination who was from the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial Capital University. The top scorer said with great emotion that after entering the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial Capital University, which has the nickname of "madhouse", he found that the IQ gap between people is really greater than that between people and dogs!
He had a hard time learning in the mathematics department, and his grades were ranked in the middle. He had worked very hard, but he couldn't keep up with others who just studied casually. He frowned and was confused in class, while the students next to him were too lazy to even take notes, and just flipped through the textbooks and understood the essence of the lesson without any hesitation...

The blogger then asked the top scorer whether he had attended the class of "Wei Shen", the famous Chinese singer from Imperial Capital University who had become an internet celebrity in the past two years. The top scorer only had a wry smile on his face and waved his hands to indicate that the singer's class was too difficult and he couldn't attend it at all. If he attended it for one more minute, he would feel that his IQ was being crushed.

This top student from a certain province was obviously not exaggerating. He also pointed out the difference between the mathematics he learned in high school and that in college. The mathematics at that time could indeed be improved through hard work. He was quite good at mathematics at that time, with a total score of 150, and he seemed to have scored 147, which was close to full marks. However, when he went to college and chose mathematics as his major, he discovered that hard work was almost worthless for mathematics, and it was 100% dependent on talent!
In the field of mathematics, if you have talent and spirituality, you can really do whatever you want. This is why Jiang Yuan can escape the summer competition training with impunity. Even the teachers don’t take it to heart. They firmly believe that she will achieve excellent results.

Earlier in late June, Jiang Yuan, who qualified for the Alibaba Global Mathematical Competition finals with first place in the preliminary round, was not stumped by the more difficult final questions. She solved those competition questions as easily as cutting melons and vegetables. Therefore, her final result will surely be very good.

It was precisely because of her performance that her superb ability in the math competition had won the unanimous recognition of the teachers in the competition class, so she naturally gained greater freedom. Sometimes when she went to the competition class, she did not sit down and listen to the class, but was directly called up by some lazy teachers to teach other students. Anyway, everyone seemed to be more willing to listen to Yuanshen's lectures...

Jiang Yuan still gained a lot of "pain points" in this competition class. After all, the competition class was full of big names, and each of them was very confident in their own abilities. In the usual math tests, they could basically get close to full marks, and any score below 140 was considered a failure.

When a person is extremely confident in his own abilities, he naturally likes to show off. Some people like to show off forcefully, while others like to show off invisibly, by inadvertently showing off their intelligence, or by being sincere in their words.

For example, if there is a very difficult competition question that no one can solve, but a certain expert solves it, but the solution is very complicated and takes a lot of time. The expert will say in a Versailles way that he really sucked this time, and actually spent so much time to solve the problem, and used such a cumbersome and stupid method, which is shameful, really too shameful!
This is obviously Versailles, after all, most of the other students didn't solve it, but no matter how much time the big brother spent or what methods he used, he solved it, so he can pretend however he wants... The big brother says "shameful", but in fact, the corners of his mouth are harder to suppress than AK, and he can still gain the admiration of other students.

However, similar pretentious behavior gradually disappeared after Jiang Yuan entered the competition class. If the big guy still used that silky little combo to show off, someone would immediately agree with him with a smile: "It's really a bit embarrassing. Well, it takes several times more time than Yuan Shen, and the solution is really too stupid. I suggest you learn from Yuan Shen's thinking, which is more concise and spiritual!"

In this way, the boss no longer had to press the corners of his mouth, he could only twitch, and put on a "pain mask" on his face. The psychological shadow area was also expanding. With an attitude of not believing in evil, he tried to understand the solution of Yuanshen...

Tsk, I suddenly had a feeling of "Fuck the math dream", it's boring, really too boring. The sense of superiority in IQ that I have accumulated since childhood seems to be completely shattered at this moment, so the "pain value" naturally came out like crazy.

Some big names in the competition were not so convinced at the beginning. They felt that it was impossible for Jiang Yuan to be able to fully comprehend every time and solve difficult problems quickly with creative solutions that they could not imagine. She must just be luckier at certain times. How could a girl have such a high talent in mathematics?
It's not that they look down on girls, but boys and girls have different talents in different subjects. In addition, throughout human history, basically all the top mathematicians who can be named are men. No matter how they find reasons, this is an objective fact.

Therefore, the top boys in the competition class were very eager to prove that their IQ was higher than Jiang Yuan's, the "strong dragon" who suddenly appeared.

As time went by, after their "pain points" were harvested countless times, they basically all became obedient... When Jiang Yuan was around, they no longer dared to pretend like they did before. They felt that no matter how they pretended, they would just be like clowns. No matter how strong you are, can you be stronger than the God Yuan?
It's not a matter of just trying hard to catch up with the other party. It's obvious that Yuanshen's IQ is not on the same level as theirs. Solving problems is like playing for her, and she doesn't usually spend much time on this area.

Yuan Shen even found time to participate in a professional table tennis tournament and won a championship. When the big guys in the competition class learned about this, they looked at each other in silence. Why could you be so showy, Yuan Shen, when we are all high school students?

The top students in the competition class basically all wear glasses, and not many of them like sports. They fit the stereotype of super top students. So it is really hard for them to imagine how Yuan Shen can be so strong in math competitions and at the same time take into account sports, and even reach the level of a professional player.

Perhaps the only thing that comforts the big guys is that Yuan Shen only participated in the mathematics competition, while some competition big guys, while participating in mathematics, also participated in other subjects, mostly physics and chemistry. After all, mathematics, physics and chemistry are indeed inseparable. On the contrary, those who participate in computer competitions and biology competitions are all done separately.

But then again, mathematics, physics and chemistry competitions are definitely at the top of the competition food chain, especially mathematics, which is the undisputed number one competition. Internationally, IMO has the highest traffic and attention. Other international Olympic competitions do not seem to receive as much attention as IMO. Ordinary people usually talk about "Mathematical Olympiad" and have never heard of "Physics Olympiad" or "Chemistry Olympiad" or so on.

The comfort to the big guys in the competition class is that although your talent in "Mathematical Olympiad" blows us away, you will never reach our level in other competition fields. Those big guys who are confident that they can win the provincial first prize in mathematics competition are also very confident that they can win the provincial first prize in physics. The physics competition questions are very simple, and at the same time, if you are not bad in experiments, isn't it easy to win the provincial first prize?

If you think about it this way, they will win, they are guaranteed to win. Anyway, it is impossible for you, Yuanshen, to come to the field of physics competition and beat us!

It must be said that this method of spiritual victory effectively helped the big guys regain their self-esteem. However, there was a believer in the fate god who could break the big guys' defense with just one sentence -

Yuanshen has no interest in competitions, no matter whether it's mathematics, physics or chemistry. She participated in mathematics competitions because she was invited by the competition class teacher with great care and persuasion. She has already beaten you by just studying casually. If she really participated in other science competitions, would her results be worse than yours?

As the saying goes, "Lies hurt no one, the truth is a sharp knife." Once such a big truth is spoken, the only reaction of the big guys is silence. Some big guys will even reply angrily, "You are the only one who talks too much!"

Don't those big guys who are good at multiple events understand the importance of IQ in competitions? Since Yuanshen can win the most difficult math competition, how could other competitions be difficult for her?

By referring to Yuanshen's usual test scores in subjects such as physics and chemistry, we can get a glimpse of the whole picture. Basically, they are all full marks and he has never failed!
It is said that teachers of these subjects also invited Yuanshen to participate in the concurrent competitions, but unfortunately she was decisively rejected. The reason seemed sufficient on the surface, that is, she just didn't have time, and a math competition had already taken up too much of her time... This reason was actually ridiculous, because she usually spent more time slacking off and playing around!

The real reason is that she obviously doesn't like it and doesn't care. Even if she has the ability to win awards, she is too lazy to do it.

Even in math competitions, she only studied superficially and had no interest in delving deeper. This was undoubtedly the most heartbreaking thing for those competition giants!
The greatest injustice in this world is that even if you devote your whole heart, energy and effort to studying something, you still cannot compare to others who just casually learn it!
If one cannot keep a balanced mentality, once such a thing happens, one's blood pressure will soar, and one may even start to wonder what the meaning of one's existence is, why such a genius appears, and whether one is destined to be a foil to a genius.
Tired, destroy it! Or just lie down. Sure enough, all the unhappiness in this world is caused by comparison. In fact, you can be happy just by being happy by yourself. Why do you have to compete with others?
In short, the appearance of Jiang Yuan and her extraordinary qualities made those who had been extremely excellent since childhood, or had long been accustomed to excellence and had always stood on the top of the mountain, in the competition class, realize the true meaning of life, which is that you must be Buddhist at ordinary times and not compete with geniuses, no, it should be monsters, there is no point, in the end it is always yourself who will break the defense...

This is also their feeling after their "pain value" has been harvested countless times. From another perspective, when their "pain value" is drained, they will naturally become completely numb. Then, what is left is naturally only happiness. When they have figured everything out, they will be the happiest!
As for Jiang Yuan, she had to admit that her performance in the competition class did not achieve "sustainable exhaustion of resources", which meant that the gap was too big, leaving others with no motivation to catch up with her. In this case, it was naturally difficult to reap the "pain value" anymore.

Unlike her performance in the professional table tennis arena, her acting skills are very essential. The professional players who play against her, even those who are much weaker than her, feel that they can fight back and forth with her. As long as they are lucky, they seem to have a chance to defeat her. So they are naturally motivated to catch up, and then every time they almost lose, they will be very unwilling. In this way, doesn't the "pain value" generate continuously?
Failure after hard work is different from just lying down and admitting defeat. The latter’s entire spirit is numb, so naturally it cannot provide any “pain value”.

From the difference, it can be seen that Jiang Yuan subjectively prefers which project to harvest "pain value" from.

(End of this chapter)

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