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Never compete with anybody else; but yourself

Guest post by: John Bino

Article Overview: I have some major disagreements with our current school system, especially because of the culture of competing against one another. We are pitched against our classmates to evaluate who is better than the other. And since only 1 can be the winner, we develop 99 losers. So then, why are we surprised when 1% of the population earns more money the 99%? So then, why are we surprised that 99% of the world is poor? Isn’t it hypocrisy? Whereas, you ask anybody who has made a difference in our society as to what they owe their success to. Invariably it comes to the fact that these people competed with themselves, and not others. They wanted to be better than their previous best. They wanted to beat their previous performance. And that is the key to success.

Never compete with anybody else; but yourself

I have some major disagreements with our current school system, especially because of the culture of competing against one another. We are pitched against our classmates to evaluate who is better than the other. And since only 1 can be the winner, we develop 99 losers. So then, why are we surprised when 1% of the population earns more money the 99%? So then, why are we surprised that 99% of the world is poor? Isn’t it hypocrisy? Whereas, you ask anybody who has made a difference in our society as to what they owe their success to. Invariably it comes to the fact that these people competed with themselves, and not others. They wanted to be better than their previous best. They wanted to beat their previous performance. And that is the key to success. I was recently introduced to an extraordinary athlete, Ben Comen, when reading the book ‘Start with Why’ by Simon Sinek. Ben is an extraordinary athlete. He is part of his school’s cross-country running team. When the rest of the runners finish the race in 20 minutes, Ben takes 40. The reason? Because he not been blessed with a normal physiology. He has cerebral palsy. But that doesn’t stop him from running; he loves running. During his runs, he trips and falls and picks himself up and keeps going. The beauty is that once the other runners finish their run they all come back and run behind Ben till he finishes the race. Extraordinary indeed. Now tell me, whom do you think Ben is competing against? His fellow runners? Or himself? Ben is running to beat his previous time; that’s all he cares for. And the result? The rest of the world gets behind him to support him to attain his goal. The moral of the story is this: If you compete with others, no one will support you. But if you compete with yourself, everyone will. So how does this apply to your life? It’s simple. The next time you start off on a project, don’t compare yourself against the others, but rather with yourself. If you make better progress than your earlier attempt, you are a winner. Keep trying to beat your previous best, and before long you will have the world behind you. You can find his inspiring story on his website. Just google 'living without limits ben comen' and you will get there. In addition, search ‘Ben Comen’ on YouTube and you can see an inspiring video. Go check him out. To your success. God Bless.

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