Two men were running away from a hungry lion on a safari. One man said there was no point in running because they couldn't outrun the lion. The other man responded that he only needed to outrun the first man. The moral of the story is that relative performance matters more than absolute performance when it comes to competition or ranking against others. For example, a child scoring 85% on a test may not be considered a good performance if other children in the class scored 86% on average.