Recently, Professor Endo Ariki from the University of Tokyo conducted a survey on nearly a hundred people who frequently get drunk.
He categorized them based on the level of intoxication into three groups: completely drunk, mentally unclear, and slightly dizzy.
The results showed that those who were completely drunk had much higher alcohol tolerance than those who were mentally unclear, and the latter had higher tolerance than those who were slightly dizzy.
Next, Endo Ariki also surveyed individuals who almost never get drunk and found that their alcohol tolerance was generally very low.
Why do people with higher alcohol tolerance get more intoxicated, while those with lower tolerance are less likely to get drunk?
Endo Ariki explained vividly:
“In life, people who are poor swimmers often survive, while drowning usually happens to excellent swimmers. This demonstrates that disadvantages can serve as warnings, whereas advantages often lead to overconfidence and carelessness.”
We often experience failure not because of our disadvantages, but because of our advantages. This is a phenomenon worth reflecting on.