Hey Everyone, Look at Me.
Oftentimes, to do better in this world, you’ve got to “compete.” Everything since conception is a comparison to someone else. When in vitro your size, development, all measurable characteristics doctors can determine as appropriate or not. As adults, this pattern can be so ingrained in us to “compete,” or to a lesser extent, “compare,” to determine our placement. I, “competed,” for most of my life. In fact, without being prompted, I determined my environment as a competition where I won, or I lost. There was no "being," no gray area. With this perspective of the world, pride was my accomplice. Pride is a nasty little beast. Instances such as sports, work development, watching your own kids grow and develop, being associated with something that is doing good, all reinforcing this prideful nature. When something doesn’t go our way, or the Sharks don’t invest in our business, then we lose and are humiliated, the opposite of pride. When we want to do good in the world, h...