People who think in the way that most of the people in the world thinks think that it is almost impossible to win against someone who's surprisingly superior than them: physically, intellectually, or anything possible, such as social relationship. However, Malcolm Gladwell argues that there are clear ways to battle those "Goliath" who owns many superior aspects, as "David" who comparably has nothing that will help them to win battles. His first chapter of the book David and Goliath introduces people who won against Goliaths with tactics that they did not expect to encounter. With those examples, Gladwell argues that one of the ways to battle against Goliaths is to use tactics that Goliaths would never expect, although those tactics will also bring struggle.
When I tried out for Illinois Music Education Association (aka ILMEA) Choir for district nine last year, everyone thought I was not going to be accepted to choir to sing in District nine concert. It was very understandable from other people's perspective. I was not good enough compare to most of people in the audition who was in their school's top choir, who practiced the music for 5 months with their choir director, who had private voice lesson teacher for many years, and who decided to sing for rest of their life as profession. I did not have that opportunity. I had voice lesson teacher for a year even before I got the music for the audition, I had to learn the music by myself, I had so much other work to do as I go to school where focuses on Math and Science, and I was in the lowest choir in my school. Everybody thought it was hopeless for me to get accepted. I had to find something special way to prepare myself for audition, that most of the people does not walk.
After searching, I found the way to be special over those people with very good singing skill: sight reading skills. Out of 100 points total for audition, sight reading took only small portion which is 16 points. However, those 16 points could make huge difference; most of the singers loose that 16 points because they don't know how to sight read the music and sing instantly. I practiced sight reading skills to get 16 points in the sight reading portion. Since I had to practice for music and sight reading, it took me almost twice as much time every time I practiced. It was longer way that not many people would like to take, and also was not expected to take because almost everybody in the audition don't know how to sight read which makes everybody somewhat equal. With the sight reading skills, I got accepted to the ILMEA District nine choir even against people who are in top choir for my own home school, becoming only sophomore and girl getting accepted to ILMEA except senior boys,
