Why Competition Should Inspire, Not Consume You
This is a publication based on the suggested topic proposed in the Hive Learners community through their discord, which on this occasion is "HEALTHY COMPETITION".
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
<< Albert Einstein >>
Bing AI
Welcome, my usual and new readers, to my blog. The topic for this week is healthy competition.
Can competition be healthy? I think so, as long as it focuses as a growth engine and not as a fight to destroy someone.
In life, things have to stay in balance.
That this competition is an impulse but that does not consume you, that motivates you without causing any kind of damage.
Because I have seen cases of many people who compete only to destroy the opponent, simply for reasons of vanity or only for simple evil.
Because then, within its nature, is like that feeling that as it gives them pleasure to cause damage, and this is part of a psychopathic behavior, obviously. Because there are people who are like that by nature, and people to whom they only like to fanfare or pretend to other people that they are winners in life.
For a long time, in different societies, especially here in Latin America (although I have also seen it in other cultures of other countries), but speaking here of Latin America, people like to pretend a lot what it is not, especially at the level of having a social position or of the achievements that they have won.
For example, if they show that they are doctors, they like to have, for example, in their office all the titles they have won and show them with pride, or the competitions they have won.
It is like showing the trophies or diplomas of the achievements that that person has had, that makes them feel proud.
But at the same time, it is like an exhibition of vanity, telling people: "Look, I have achieved all these trophies and all these successes in life, and you? What have you achieved?"
Bing AI
And obviously, this can be the motivation so that other people can move forward and can fight.
But I understand it as something that can be very toxic, because a person to be motivated and to be overcome by another who has had so many achievements and see that you cannot reach it, because it has been the case of my own and many other people that I know who have felt frustrated to see that they do not achieve that position or that degree or that trophy or that victory that the other person has had, no matter how much they have tried for many years.
Then, there are people too You have to take into account that there are people who are like privileged in that sense.
There are signs when you can know that a competition is healthy, and it is when this competition inspires you to improve and not to obsess.
When in a competition there is mutual respect, you admire the person who is competing with you and learn from that person. That is another sign.
When the objective is to grow and not only win to have the prize or the trophy, because even losing, you gain experience to see how the other people participate and what they do.
And that is the idea of a competition.
Another sign that a competition is positive is that you feel with energy. You are not bitter or you are not resentful for having to compete.
This is what happens many times, and I say it from my own experience.
Now, when a competition is not positive and it is a toxic competition, is when the person or when you want to win at all costs, and people start cheating.
Bing AI
They start talking to slander the other participants or start manipulating the others.
And when the self-esteem of the person depends on winning, because if you lose, you feel that you are worth nothing.
And also when you have a lot of envy or you get angry when you see that other people triumph. Then, this is already signs that a competition is really toxic.
To maintain balance, because you have to overcome your own goals and not only those of the others.
You have to celebrate the successes of others too, and you also have to set limits.
Because if rivalry takes away more of what it gives us, then we have to rethink that. You have to also think if we compete for growth or we compete for fear of being left behind.
This is an important factor also.
And also because sometimes you have to create alliances with other people to be able to get further.
In general it should feel like a challenge game, not like a war.
If a competition leaves you empty instead of proud (without being vain), then that is already a sign that something is not right.
And well, this is what I can say about healthy competition.
This is my black cat "manclar", this account is to honor his dead (it happened years ago).
Visit the Neon Strike discord, the game of the future today!
(Discord)
Credits:
Thumbnail image maded using Bing AI and edited with Canva.com
All images in the post are created by AI, those children do not exist in the real world.
The text dividers were made by me using aseprite
Post translated from spanish to english using Deepseek AI
Hi @manclar, I think we have talked about non-toxic competition before. The one that makes us be better and that society also gets the best.
Destructive competition is as negative as the total absence of competition. Systems in which monopolies prevent competition, in which the best is not rewarded, end up perishing.
A very big hug.
I hope that those systems where the best are not rewarded end up extinguishing soon, starting here in Hive, where that is the first thing that happens and I have been fed up with the falsity of people.
A hug.
The truth is that in general we are living in times when mediocrity abounds. But, as you know, I don't want to get angry with these things, on the contrary, I prefer to enjoy the good in every moment.
Returning to your comment and the bad path that humanity is taking, I am convinced that we are living a time of great decadence hidden behind flashy but empty technologies.
si, vivimos en una epoca de decadencia totalmente. Gracias por la nominacion en ocd...ya vi quienes son los que apoyan realmente lo que hago y quienes prefieren a otras personas, eso me dijo mucho sobre a quien apoyar y a quien no. Fue cuchillo para sus propios cuellos.
!HUG
Don't give these nominations any more thought, I saw them too and I wasn't surprised by what I saw. You know that I made a decision a few months ago that has taken away my support but with which I live more comfortable.
Yes, I imagine it was nothing new for you. It seems very interesting to me because each person's interests are seen, I love that it is public, so I also know which ones will receive my support and who doesnt. I will also feel very comfortable doing it.
Now I don't know if I did the right thing in nominating you. Honestly, I don't think it's worth getting angry about.
You did very well to do it, because that shows me the true faces of each person, and it is something that for me is very valuable to know it, more than win or do not win the prize (that is what matters least to me), I am interested in confirming who is who and what their interests are, and with what you have done, it is clear to me, I am not upset, on the contrary i am very happy 😎
Well, if the nomination helped you and you weren't upset by what you saw, then I'm glad I did it.
I'll leave it there, as I'm going to bed.
Good night, I try to make today's post, to leave it and then dedicate myself to my project, which I don't want to know anything about Hive until next Friday.
Happy dreams.