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Life is a Competition

That business you work for? Someone’s trying to kill it. That job you like? Someone would love to replace you with a computer program. That girlfriend/boyfriend/high-paying job/Nobel Prize that you want? So does somebody else.

We’re all in competition, although we prefer not to realise it. Most achievements are notable only in relation to those of others. You swam more miles, or can dance better, or got more Facebook likes than the average. Well done.

It’s a painful thing to believe, of course, which is why we’re constantly assuring one another the opposite. “Just do your best,” we hear. “You’re in competition only with yourself.” The funny thing about platitudes like that is they’re designed to make you try harder anyway. If competition really didn’t matter, we’d tell struggling children to just give up.

Fortunately, we don’t live in a world in which everyone has to kill one another to prosper. The blessing of modern civilization is there’s abundant opportunities and enough for us all to get by, even if we don’t compete directly.

But never fall for the collective delusion that there’s not a competition going on. People dress up to win partners. They interview to win jobs. If you deny that competition exists, you’re just losing. Everything in demand is on a competitive scale. And the best is available only to those who are willing to truly fight for it. 

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