Embracing Competition In An Over Populated Competitive World

November 22, 2022,

If only things were that simple.

When it comes to competition that is.

Competition is essentially trying to obtain or win something that other people want.

Pretty simple definition with complexities everywhere.

Depending upon what family a young person is raised in, it will tend to shape their view of how much they want to compete.

The question we ask is, do you really have a choice? Is the main consequence to not competing, being left out?

We ask that question because we sense all of us have no choice but to compete.

Have you seen the website worldometers.info?

It can be a little scary. It chronicles the population of the world.

And keeps updating. By the second.

Today, 366,000 people were born. Just today alone. For the year, 114,533,000.

Think about it, in one year 114 million people just entered the planet. To eventually compete for limited resources. The resources are not growing at the same pace.

They educate, “A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987).”

At some point, whether we like it or not, won’t we have to accept that we live in a competitive world? Besides, some studies indicate that competing can be good for a young person.

At psychologytoday.com they analyze, “In team-based competitions, children need to communicate and work together. The fact that they will face another team competitively can make them better collaborators. A good deal of evidence supports the benefits of team sports, in particular.”

They add that children involved in team sports were less likely to have signs of anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or social problems. Team players may have had less difficulty socially because they have already practiced cognitive empathy. In other words, understanding how others think.

As you get older, if you are single, you are competing with two individuals who happen to be married with two incomes to your one, for housing. Do you like that?

Reality says that is doesn’t matter.

One day you will most likely work for a company. In that company you will be competing against fellow employees or other companies.

To survive.

So much of learning to compete is a mindset. How can you view competing in a positive way?

Let’s get some insight from experienced minds.

Time to walk over to the bookstore.

Strategic Learning: How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage Hardcover – Illustrated, March 15, 2010

By Willie Pietersen (Author)

“How to use Strategic Learning to rapidly respond to change and gain a sustainable advantage over your competitors

What’s even harder than creating a breakthrough strategy? Making it stick. As companies are fighting to survive in a tough economy, this new book by Willie Pietersen demonstrates the power of the Strategic Learning process, a four-step dynamic cycle guaranteed to create and sustain winning performance. Adopted by a wide range of corporations and not-for-profit organizations, the Strategic Learning process builds on eight years of practicing, adapting and honing the original concepts Pietersen first introduced in Reinventing Strategy to explain how organizations can generate superior insights about their customers and competitors, craft a Winning Proposition, focus on a vital few key priorities, create buy-in throughout the organization and achieve success – again and again.

• Teaches organizations to make smarter decisions that help them win customers and earn superior profits
• Explains how to instill a culture of openness, learning, and courage that can face and respond to the constantly changing business environment
• Is a tool that can benefit leaders at all levels, in organizations both large and small, global and domestic, for-profit and not-for-profit
• Author Willie Pietersen, a former president of Tropicana and Seagram USA, is a professor of management at Columbia Business School, and the author of Reinventing Strategy, from Wiley

Strategic Learning shows you how your business or nonprofit organization can develop better, more effective strategies for long-term competitive advantage.”

Very well stated. Compete for survival.

One more.

BECOMING A GREAT TEAM PLAYER: How to Positively Impact and Contribute to a Winning Team Culture Paperback – December 11, 2018

By Allistair McCaw (Author), Denise McCabe (Editor), Eli Blyden Sr. (Contributor)

“Become the player your coach and team need!

For well over two decades Allistair McCaw has analyzed what it takes to be a great team player. He has worked with some of the world’s most successful athletes, coaches, and teams in 40 countries.

Becoming a Great Team Player lays out what coaches look for: players with skills that make their team the embodiment of great.

This book is about building great team and life skills, and empowers both team players and their coaches to work together to achieve a champion minded team culture. Becoming a Great Team Player is an easy-to-read, must-have book that you can use as a blueprint to achieve your goals in a group or team environment. In this book, you will learn…- How to better your team’s culture – What coaches really look for in a great team player – How to develop the skills of a great team player – How to build better relationships within a team environment.”

Makes perfect sense.

If you are young, perhaps this is a mindset you need to learn early on.

It doesn’t have to be viewed as negative and nowhere in the above thoughts have we seen the word cheating.

Nor cut throat.

Nor, dog eat dog.

At first, in your young life, competing is a very individual thing but as you get older and get involved in group or team activity, it will tend to be collaborative. Competing will help you learn how to work well with people and share ideas.

Like or not, we survive much better in a group where each individual has their responsibilities.

Become very good at your responsibility. It will become a pattern that will carry you forward in a positive way, throughout life.

So, very early in your life, think about the positive aspects of competing, with high standards and life will tend to go well for you, your group, your family and more important, get you what you want.

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https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/open-gently/202207/how-competitions-are-good-kids

https://www.fciwomenswrestling2.com

https://femcompetitor.com/

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