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You’re Only Competing With Yourself
You can always win this competition.
Everywhere you look, there’s competition. Every election, sport, game, and contest focuses on competing. Win the election, finish first, make the most impressive meal, and outperform the others so you can be the best, most recognized, ultimate winner.
There are plenty of contests out there where it’s all about competing. Yet, aside from such intentional competitions, you’re not in competition with anyone else for anything.
Let me repeat that for those in the cheap seats. YOU ARE NOT IN COMPETITION WITH ANYONE ELSE FOR ANYTHING. Unless you participate in a contest — a race, a fencing bout, any professional sport, a spelling bee, and the like — you’re not competing.
Even in academia, where you have a top of the class, it’s not truly competing with others to have the highest scores and best grades. Some people are better test takers than others. However, elements of academic pursuits do reveal where you can find one true competition. Really, the only true competition that’s not part of a contest, sport, and so on.
Competing with yourself.
