What is your relationship with competition? Do you find it motivating or draining? Let me know in the comments below.
But if you’ve ever stayed up late, exhausted, watching a rival succeed while you stalled, you know the dirty secret of competition: The Competition
The Competition: Are You Racing Against Others, or Against Yourself? What is your relationship with competition
The scoreboard (the award, the promotion, the ranking) is a snapshot of a single moment. The Game is your skill, your discipline, and your joy. Play the Game. Let the scoreboard take care of itself. But if you’ve ever stayed up late, exhausted,
This is the paradigm shift. The person in the other lane has a different starting line, different resources, and different problems. Comparing your Chapter 1 to their Chapter 20 is madness. Ask yourself every morning: Am I 1% better than I was six months ago? A Short Parable Two fishermen sat by a lake. One was fast. One was slow. The fast one caught ten fish. The slow one caught two.
Here is how the best athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs reframe the game:
"That's not fair," said the slow one. "You have a better rod. You got here earlier."