Is Pressure a Privilege?

Apparently Bill Jean King text messaged the Australian Open winner, Maria Sharapova, that "Pressure is a Privilege." It seems that this makes sense, that when you are on the top, there will always be a tremendous amount of pressure for you to continue to be on top. Would you rather be on the bottom? Well, isn't there pressure on the bottom as well if you want to succeed? I think pressure is a privilege and a necessity for people who want to do well. If you are satisfied with what you have then you won't feel pressure and things will stay the way they are.

So, you have to ask yourself how comfortable are you with what you have? If you aren't upgrading your skills or trying to get better at doing whatever you are doing, then you are happy with where you are and nothing is going to change, or so you think. The problem is, you aren't living in a closed system and that means there is always going to be pressure operating on you in way way or another. So, in order for you to maintain your level of happiness you need to constantly develop ways to better adapt to the pressure that is around you or as much as you can, have a system that puts more pressure on the outside world than it does on you. This, however, takes some energy and active participation on your part. Either way, you can't rest on your laurels too long for you may just become obsolete.