Let me explain with examples what High Poppy Syndrome is.
I explain with examples what is the High Poppy Syndrome: between fanciful hypothesis and social pathology
What is “Tall Poppy Syndrome“? It is a particular form of envy that consists in the difficulty of being able to genuinely appreciate the successes of others without feeling annoyed. That annoyance that then evolves, each at his own pace, into strategies to demolish the opponent. An opponent who may also be a “friend”!
In fact, it is well known that we prune the flowers that grow more than their neighbors, so as not to disfigure the lower ones. Hence the name of the “tall poppy”.
The syndrome expresses the aversion generated by individuals who manage to stand out in a particular field. This feeling is not really a form of envy, it is more of an emotional reaction to the success of others that inevitably highlights their limitations.
Criticize, discredit, slander. These are the routine weapons of those affected by this bad habit! [Find out more in the dedicated article].
From 2017 to today, we have worked to create an event that has achieved the goal of bringing together a group of entrepreneurs and businessmen united by being all owners of a Lamborghini car.
A community that, by living its passion for the Tori di Sant’Agata on a daily basis, has managed to strengthen the image of the territories it has crossed, the human relationships it has created, the companies and people it has involved. A true luxury experience with a high emotional impact capable of making everyone happy: owners, enthusiasts, children and the simply curious.
It’s as if…
upon reaching this milestone, some subjects more or less directly linked to the Mother Company had decided to wage war on me!
As the event you create reaches the international stage, it expands its community and successfully establishes itself worldwide. It becomes a true lifestyle phenomenon capable of attracting top brands and influential figures.
It’s as if…
at that very moment, an internal group joined forces to sow the famous “discord”, clumsily attempting to replicate the format.
It’s as if
those individuals who had initially collaborated to give birth to the first Bull Days, began phoning everyone to say they were no longer going to Bull Days, feeling dispossessed.
It’s as if…
of the friends I’ve already written an article about, actually stood by me with the intent of helping to cut the poppy.
Of course, these are just examples to better explain the Tall Poppy Syndrome through the activities that everyone knows me for. The impressive thing is that in certain environments these things really happen. Very often those who are victims, out of fear, do not even talk about it.
It then becomes an attitude that tends to oppress the individual. A premeditated conduct put in place in order to cancel what has become the enemy. Those who have the misfortune to come into contact with those who adopt such behavior, inevitably become victims.
An anti-meritocratic mechanism is thus triggered, harmful not only to the health of the individual but also to that of businesses.
But fortunately large companies like Lamborghini have a Code of Ethics and managers who are very attentive to the fundamentals of this important moral instrument, thus preventing such actions from taking hold.
Unfortunately, these devious dynamics constitute, elsewhere, a real social model based on envy. An attitude of provincialism that inhabits small minds.
My thanks go to all the people I have mentioned directly and not. To all those I have met in this wonderful journey towards the fifth anniversary.
Stefano Cigana
