Competition is good for performance. But what's liberating is the competition with your own self, especially where attitudes seem to be in support of a collective demise, where folks don't mind seeing you get ahead, but not too far ahead, and where the fear of failure is so rife that for one to succeed, one tends to believe that someone else must fail.
See, dread! By being your own competitor, it’s easier to count your blessings, track progress, and to see if you need to calibrate to outdo your past performance. There’s is no fear of you losing and someone else winning; you either succeed or you learn, zero time for irrational, illusory, groundless, unfounded, and unprovable Babaaláwo-seeking fears and beliefs... Isn't that a liberating experience?
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