How to turn a whistle into applause

In the year when I first became the best seller of cars, I was invited to a banquet, which was arranged by our car company. The banquet was called the "Legion of Leaders". For the first time, a lot of applause fell on my share, but then I could not know and did not even guess what tests are waiting for me in the future.

The following year, I was again included in the "Legion of Leaders", but the applause was diminished. A year later at the banquet I heard no longer applause, but a whistle. Dumbfounded, I stood at the platform, ready to make a speech. I was so shocked and amazed that I was literally paralyzed.

So, that evening at the banquet I pushed aside the prepared speech and asked the people who were booing me to stand up so that I could look at them and thank them. That's right, thank you. I said: "Thank you very much. I will be again the best for next year, - and smiled with a smile of the winner. "You gave me the right to return to this place again. You poured new fuel into my tank so the engine would not stop. "
I won this title the next year, and a year later, and the same thing was repeated every time. And I always turned their disapproval and bad manners to my advantage.

What was it? Envy? Jealousy? Maybe they just did not want to work as hard as I did? Or the price for the title of the seller number 1 seemed to them too high?
Then I decided that in order to continue to successfully sell myself, I need to drive out of my life jealousy, jealousy, a willingness to surrender, agreeing to the second place. I suddenly understood what was really happening at these banquets.
People occupying second or third place in life will not be satisfied until No. 1 falls to their level.