Western society congratulates improvement.  Well, at least in education that is.
If you transform from an idiot to someone average, you'll probably win the "improvement award" or "best effort award" or similar (in hopes that it encourages you to continue the improvement trend or whatever poo poo like that).  So if you're only average in class and want to be awarded for something (rare for the average person), just start off acting like an idiot and just slowly make yourself seem less like an idiot.

Browsers are probably a bit of a different domain though.