Your competitors are not your enemies! Healthy competition is one of your greatest assets for self-improvement. It is a force that brings us to excellence. Instead of feeling negative and bitter about your competition or competitors and wanting them to fail, use competition as a catalyst to become better at what you do, whether it is business, sports, or intellectual work. Our natural instinct is to not want competition — to prefer a lack of competition over excellence. But, healthy competition is a driving engine. You never know how strong you are until there is resistance. How can you find out how strong you are without anyone challenging you? Embrace competition, rather than resenting it — the transformation from envy to healthy motivation is life-changing.
Go deeper into this subject: Vice Advice Series Part Five: Envy, Competition, How Free Is the Free Market?
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Take on The Challenge: The Power of Competition
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I am happy I am not strong.
Otherwise I would have fought and not learn.
I still need learning.
This is a reply to a message on competition. So lets stay on topic.
Some competition are really our enemy.
Some economic players are out to hurt and enslave others.
By the spirit that drives them.
We are all driven by spirit. Not by god the father of life.
We are like children that have the freedom to make mistakes. We have a hard time learning from those mistakes.
My self included.
Economy.
Everything is related.
So I am personally so a I am economically.
I learned I am blinded. I learn that I am taught by people that are blinded.
As long as I am not free from that it will lead.
Competition shows our weakness.
Competition is complex.
It can be seen as entirely bad.
Now strikes me the taught to look broader than competition. To look at the purpose of life and of economy. To look at what we need.
We need to grow up.
Meaningfull living.
“Modern times” of Charlie Chaplin.
Destruction, plundering of all.
Of humans by humans. Of nature.
Competition is no help in that.
Nothing but a different purpose of life.
A different relating. To everything. With everything. It will eventually heal everything.
In that respect is there nothing good about competition. Fighting each other over resources. Not seeing each others as colleages , partners but enemies that we have to overpower less they overpower us.
For a race we chear for first place. Not for the effort all participant made to be the best they can. Some have had to overcome great adversity.
Women have often have to overcome great adversity from the community they come from.
How are women treated in Rabbinic led society ? Depends on which rabbi leads.
May we all be open minded and wise.
Understanding and wary of narrow mindedness.
I know little. Often makes mistakes.
Trying to be wise. May I succeed as often as possible. May I not be judgemental of other for it arms them , me and our relationship.
See you next time.