David's first tactic to battle against Goliath argued by Malcolm Gladwell - revised

Most of the people in the world think that it is almost impossible to win against someone who’s superior than them physically, intellectually, or even with social relationship .

However, Malcolm Gladwell argues that there are clear ways to battle Goliaths who has many superior aspects, as David who comparably has nothing that is beneficial to win battles. His first chapter of the book David and Goliath introduces people who won against Goliaths with tactics that Goliaths did not expect to encounter. With those examples, Gladwell argues that one of the ways to battle and win against Goliaths is to use tactics that might bring struggle but Goliaths would never expect..

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 and would sing in a District nine ILMEA concert. It was very understandable from other people's perspective. I was not very superior at singing to get accepted against people who were in their school's top choir, who practiced their music for five months with their choir director, who had private voice lesson teachers for many years, and who decided to sing for rest of their life as job. I was not interested in singing that much. I had a voice lesson teacher for a year, I had to learn the music by myself, I had so much other work to do as I went to school which focused 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 special ways to prepare myself for the audition that  most of the people did not take.

After searching, I found the way to be special over people who are very good at singing. It was sight reading. Out of 100 points total for audition, sight reading took only 16 points. However, those 16 points could make huge difference; most of the singers does not do very well on the sight reading section 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. The process was much longer and harder than usual way that not many people would have like to take, and most people did not take that way 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 only girl getting accepted to ILMEA