Healthy and Unhealthy Competition
When it comes to life and competition, we all have our diverse perspectives. Some think that one has to compete with opposing parties in other to grow in life, while some don't really have the mindset of competition. They just want to survive today, survive the next day, and the day that follows. All they do is live. They take life any how they see it without worrying about it too much.
My tribes men will always say that life is a market place. After you finish your shopping, you leave and allow other people to do theirs too.
Though some people run away from competing, in their words, it's very stressful and they want a stress-free life, it is worthy of note that the ups and downs of life is one major competition we must face head on.
In other to be a successful person in life, there is need for competition. So long as it's a healthy competition, I don't really see the need of running away from competing with other people.
I have come to the end of my self to realize that in other for me to grow in life I must get myself a rival. There must be a competition to motivate me into getting out of my comfort zone.
My mom once told me that another reason why we get friends is not because of the fun they provide, but it is because when you see your friend doing better than you are, you will be forced to also do well, or even better than them.
Imagine your friend got himself a small business. His business is thriving irrespective of the hardships. If you don't have any business or something tangible that gives you money, you will be forced to get yourself something.not to shut down his source of income, but to also have your own source of income.
One way I grow in life is by silently competing with other people that are in higher positions than me. I always see them as my rival. Because of this, I tend to put in more effort just to surpass them.
A competition can be healthy, and it can also be unhealthy. It all depends on the mindset of the competitors.
To the best of my knowledge, a healthy competition is that which has no jealousy, envy or hatred towards the other competitor. For example, competing with somebody because you hate their product. Or because you're jealous of their progress or something. Instead of competing with love, joy and happiness, both parties are competing with deep hatred for each other.
An unhealthy competition on the other hand is the total opposite of a healthy competition.
When a competition becomes toxic, it no longer serve as a positive motivational factor, but instead, you will want to do it in other to make the other person fail or feel bad. When the competition is backed by negative emotions, then I consider that competition to be toxic.
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I agree with you that a healthy competition is one where there is no jealousy, envy or hatred towards the other competitors. Any competition in which all these things are present between the participants will be called unhealthy because those people are taking the competition personally and not as a competition. Whatever the competition is, it always seems that someone will win, the only difference is that some people take this victory and defeat personally and in a way, the feeling of revenge always remains in their mind. Some people start developing ego about victory and become egoistic and arrogant, which is completely wrong. Here everything is a matter of time, if someone is winning today, then he will not always be the winner because someone else will come who will be better than him and will win by performing even better than him, so it is better to take a competition just as a competition. Some people take this competition so personally that it goes too far later, so this should not be done at all.