We're all competitive (it's not a choice)

Competition is great, it motivates us, it gets us out of bed in the mornings, it makes us give it our all. People that claim they’re not competitive do so because they’re afraid that they’ll lose at anything they do, so they do not even bother to try.

After all, are you really a man if, when faced with the opportunity, you would turn down having the world bent to your will? This does not mean choosing to be a tyrant, but a king. We can be the latter without the former.

We should all find a discipline of life that we’re so passionate about that we’re willing to fight, to go through heaven and hell to be the best at it. We’re all competitive, and the people that say they are not, is because they haven’t found something to do that is so integral to themselves that the mere fact of someone else challenging their capability profoundly shakes their inner foundations.

He who is not competitive, is because he is not measurably good at anything.

And, I say this from experience; there was a time where I wasn’t attractive, wasn’t strong, didn’t ski well, was not confident, wasn’t smart, had no belief in either myself or the universe; a time where there was nothing to compete about.

As soon as you get good at some area of life, enough so that you start valuing it as part of your identity, you’ll begin to be willing to fight to the death for it.

How to find such a discipline of life? Something that’s worth fighting to the death, for us? As follows:

We shouldn’t seek comfort, we should seek value. Value? Yes, seek to be aligned with the values, ideals, and motivations we have in our lives. Seek to achieve peak physicality, mentality, and intellectuality within activities that line up with who we want to be.

What we do, what we compete about, is what is necessary to bridge the gap between who we are right now, and our ideal-self. The fuel for excellence, competition, will then come about as the necessary step in wanting to eliminate the possibility of someone else becoming who we should be, instead of us doing so.

Lesson: find something to compete about and, compete.

See you next post!