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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

Crab's mindset: Are You a Crab?

Nada AbdulBaset - Level 2 - Political Science, nada.abdelbasit2020@feps.edu.eg

Our social world is complex, but what about publicly, students get lower grades compared
the other surrounding worlds? The marine to privately announced ones. High-grades-

world for example? Personally, I never students get bullied for their outstanding
thought that animals, or more specifically, performance and consequently, they perform
crabs would have common behaviors with badly the following time. The crux of this

us- humans. mentality is not improving your position but
worsening others’. The beautiful thing here
The crab mentality or the pull-back appears at the point when you ask yourself
syndrome is a phenomenon that describes which one am I, the escaping crab or the

the behavior of crabs when they are in a grasping one? Nothing is wrong if you found
bucket. An escaping crab reaching the top, yourself one of these two crabs as long as you
and suddenly, a fellow crab pulls it back, to figure it out and fix yourself.
the deep bottom. This actually made me

realize the fact that even these unknown
communities –to some of us- do have their
own lives, and sometimes, their factual,
humane, interesting and unbelievable lives!

The insight one gains from this scene is that
humans really do the same and repetitively
in companies, universities and even families.

An experiment made in New Zealand
revealed that when students’ grades are
announced

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