http://businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-8?op=1
When people ask Marissa, why she joined Google after getting her masters in symbolic systems at Stanford, she likes to tell them her "Laura Beckman story". It's about the daughter of her middle school piano teacher.
Marissa begins: "Laura tried out for the volleyball team her junior year at high school. At the end of the tryouts, she was given a hard choice: bench on varsity, or start on JV.
Most people, when they're faced with this choice, would choose to play - and they'll pick JV. Laura did the opposite. She chose varsity, and she benched the whole season.
But then an amazing thing happened. Senior year she tried out and she made varsity as a starter, and all the JV starters from the previous year benched their whole senior year.
I remember asking her: "How did you know to choose varsity?"
And she said, "I just knew that if I got to practice with the better players every day, I would become a much better player, even if I didn't get to play in any of the games."
The moral of Mayer's story is that it's always better to surround yourself with the best people, so that they will challenge you, and you will grow.
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