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2023 Author: Katelyn Chandter | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 13:08
How many times have you been told: "Compete with yourself and then you will have no equal"? But believing in this is not always a good idea. The competitive process with oneself leads to the fact that achievements are very modest, and life does not suit at all. If you want to achieve what you want in life, then you need to compete with others, and not engage in endless fuss and imitation of change.
Compete with yourself! Arrange a shadow boxing! Try to be your best version! It is important to compete with yourself, not others! Be better than yesterday!
We are told this a thousand times by different people, motivators and smart books. This modern wisdom and philosophy sounds great in theory, but in practice it turns out to be useless, and sometimes even harmful. With such an attitude, all life will be gray, and the results are insignificant, modest and weak. Do you want this when dreams and goals are not achieved?
The worst competitor you can choose is yourself. Such attitudes are only for people who are insecure and weak in spirit. When you compete with yourself, you are extremely ineffective. You will never achieve a dream or goal if you only tinker in your sandbox. This is pointless from a practical point of view.
Compete not with yourself, but with others
Take any sport and you will notice that team training is much more effective. Running clubs, gym, fitness workouts, crossfit teams. Why is this all so popular? When people are engaged in a team, the results are much higher. We begin to use our full potential, we try to overtake others or be no worse than a leader. But in independent training, we constantly feel sorry for ourselves, do not give our best and do not strive to overtake someone.
Compete with yourself? You slightly exceed your result, but no more. All of this is ineffective. Even when a person trains, and an imaginary opponent is opposing him, then he shows the results better. Competing not with himself, but with another rival, a person always breaks his past records and surpasses past achievements.
Why are business schools and other team training so popular? A person is lazy, and in a team it is much easier not to give yourself a favor. Similar experiments in business, sports, creativity, and other fields produce similar results.
Compete with yourself? Better than yesterday? This is a subjective criterion that reflects reality poorly. It is very difficult to adequately compare yourself to yourself. You need to compete with the strong, otherwise you will not achieve anything or the results will be modest. Human priorities are to maintain strength and follow the path of least resistance. For this reason, competing with yourself is extremely fruitless. You seem to be doing something, but there's little point in it.
Compete with the strong
Competition with other rooks is often extremely frowned upon. It can make you depressed, kill motivation, disappoint in life and make you give up. But rivalry is in our blood. We were even the first at birth. Were leaders, but now what?
There is a saying: "If you are the smartest in the area, then you are in the wrong area." It's important to compete with the strong, not hang out with the weak. You will reach out to the strong and grow. Striving for the best makes you better. You can learn from them, repeat their actions and win.
Compete with the strongest and the best. But that doesn't mean you have to compete in wealth with Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates. It's also stupid to compete in fame with Kanye West or Cristiano Ronaldo.
Choose your partner for the competition carefully, reasonably and adequately. This person should be a higher level, but there should be no gap between you. Compete with someone who is better than you and who is a great example. So, having caught up with one leader, you choose the next goal that you must conquer.
Compete with yourself? It is necessary to compete with the strong and those who can teach something and to whom you need to constantly reach out. Set your goals and competition partners gradually to grow every day. When you reach the same level, then set a new frontier and a new leader. Go through them like in a computer game step by step.
Compete with yourself? Stop engaging in unproductive self-reflection. So you will forever sit in your comfort zone and simulate hectic activity. But all this is self-deception.
The process of growing and moving forward will be the maximum possible when you compete with others, give your best 100% and even more.