The Competition: Are You Racing Against Others, or Against Yourself?
So, step onto the field. Respect your rivals. Learn from them. But run your own race. The Competition
This is the paradigm shift. The person in the other lane has a different starting line, different resources, and different problems. Comparing your Chapter 1 to their Chapter 20 is madness. Ask yourself every morning: Am I 1% better than I was six months ago? A Short Parable Two fishermen sat by a lake. One was fast. One was slow. The fast one caught ten fish. The slow one caught two. The Competition: Are You Racing Against Others, or
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Instead, Out-learn them. Out-care them.
The race is long. In the end, you aren't competing against the person next to you. You are competing against the voice that says "give up." Learn from them
4 minutes We live in a world that measures us. From the scoreboard on a Friday night football game to the quarterly earnings reports in a corporate boardroom, the message is the same: Compare. Rank. Win.