For some reason, being competitive kinda gets a bad rap these days. It seems that in the pursuit of fairness many have come to think of competitiveness as an obstacle to be overcome. But the pendulum may have swung too far and I’d like to argue in defence of the spirit of competitiveness.
I started thinking about this when my nine year old daughter came home from school with a competition on SumDog, an online math game for kids.
Prior to this, she’d do maybe 50 or 60 questions a week. Then, when she saw her name on a leaderboard alongside her classmates, something amazing happened. That week she completed over 800 questions! Something had changed within her and I believe that she uncovered her sense of competitiveness.
We need only to take a quick glance at history to see more examples …
Charles Darwin, author of “Origin Of The Species”, didn’t publish his theory of evolution until Alfred Russel Wallace came along and threatened to do the same thing.
Louis Pasteur competed with his rival Robert Koch to prove that bacteria could be weakened – and he did, and so created pasteurisation which is so key to food safety today.
And there was Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton – Hooke was convinced that the planets were attracted to the sun, but Newton developed the mathematical proof to win the argument.
Competitiveness is bred in the bone for human beings, and used well can lead to developments that benefit everyone. It brings out the best in us humans because it helps us try our best. It is one of the basic reasons why we advance as a species.
Be More Competitive is a self-hypnosis session that you can use to ignite your natural instincts to achieve. You can use it in any situation and once you do, you’ll experience what it feels like to win – because you’ve done your best. Give it a try.
To the confidence to compete,
Roger and George
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Roger Elliott with George Barron
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