We are afraid to make mistakes because we lose our recognition, therefore we take shortcuts to win in recognition. In school work it turns to cheating and taking easier classes. But the grades and the recognition are more important to students than the truth. Some turn to other activities for competition. The main thing being extracurricular activities and for or with friends.
Extracurricular activities are good but there are still shortcuts here for example, using steroids.
With friends it causes people to do dumb things like drugs and plainly being stupid. My experience with competition was in school and in sports. I took a few shortcuts early in school and learned that shortcuts would just hurt me. So instid of cheating on a test I took an F and tried my best in sports instid of using steroids. I lost a few friends because they started taking shortcuts.