Life without competition, what would that be like?

[whatevergirl]

*When my son played on the football team at school, it was very competitve. Sports, jobs, etc…we live in a competitive world. But, suppose there was no competition? Suppose we set our own standards, and raised our own bars? When I go to work, I don’t look at my coworkers and say to myself…‘I want to do better than this or that one today.’ No, I look to what God would have me do for the day, which is to stay focused on serving Him and others. If we are in servitude of others, I happen to think that the results will naturally come to fruition. I see far too much back stabbing, and people stealing another’s work pretending that it’s theirs…in hopes of promotions, etc.

On some levels, competition is good. I mean, when you are looking for an insurance quote for your car, you don’t go for the first quote you receive, you compare to other companies, and what they might be charging for the same coverage. So…in that sense it’s good. But, on so many other levels, competition just seems to stress everyone out.

What do you think? Are you competitive? Do you think the world would be a better place without competition? Curious as to your thoughts. *

 

[MarcoPolo]

I think competition can be good in prompting someone to raise their own levels of excellence when they see someone else able to do it. Backstabbing and “beating” someone for the sake of it in the workplace and such is of course not good. And yes, competition is better for a free market than a monopoly.

 

[tonyrey]

Do you think there could be life without competition in any shape or form?

 

[chinese_boy]

i think your ideas are interesting,in my opinion competition is a coin ,it has two sides,nothing in yhe world is totally right or wrong

 

[Bluegoat]

I think competition is a fine thing if we are happy because of achieving excellence, no matter who does it.

So for a hockey team - I think the individuals should strive to play as well as they can. I think they should seek to out-do themselves, and insofar as it is part of the game, the other team. The team also should have a similar outlook.

And at the end, if real excellence was achieved by the other team, they should be just as pleased as if they had done it themselves.

Always the achievement needs to be put in perspective. Hockey is not actually very important - it is just a man-made game, for fun. Other kinds of achievement may have more permanent value, but always they need to be seen for what they are.

I think much of the time kids sports do not promote that kind of desire for achievement. One also sees the same thing sometimes in other kids activities, but organized kids sports, seems to be the biggest problem. Team sports promote a kind of competition in many cases that the young kids playing them are not able to really understand in a healthy way.

I have some suspicions about why that is, but one comes from an interview I read with an Olympic athlete and mom. She felt that the skill teaching in young kids sports was much too low level, and games were played far too often (say every week) by kids that could not yet benefit from them due to lack of skill and inability to strategist, and that they had far too serious a focus. Her feeling was they were playing so many games because it was what the parents wanted to see.

 

[lemondiesel]

competition has shaped what our world is today, its hard to imagine what it would be like without it . . . if we did not compete with other people, man, lol i just cant picture it hahaha