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The Perils of Unnecessary Competition
My choices in life are good for me, but probably not for you. Resources considered scarce generally are not, so there is no need to compete.
As we are not in competition, I would be happy to help you along your path in whatever way I can.
Competition is a fine thing in certain respects. My baseball team versus your team, track stars running for the best time, contestants on Jeopardy!, fencers fighting to best one another, and for that matter most competitive sports.
Competition in your everyday life, for the most part, is unhealthy.
This is not just a straight-up notion, either. You and I become competitive on a number of different issues, in a number of different ways that are disempowering.
Places we should not be in competition
First, there is the obvious. Competing for jobs, competing for food, competing to be classier, richer, and smarter than anyone else. This is the fruit of lack mentality, of the belief that there is not enough of insert-object-x-here for everyone, so we have to struggle to get it for ourselves. I would bet that your social media channels are as clogged with this sort of competition as mine are.
Then there are the somewhat less obvious forms of competition. They got ‘x’, so now…
