I do believe that the word competition is over-indexed to be an external thing.
There are a couple of ways of examining it-
-What if we remove the letter ‘m‘ word from competition and leverage the energy emanating from ‘copetition ‘. The context changes completely and the narrative is all about contribution, collaboration, connection and not the hustle and pressure conventionally associated with ‘ competition ‘.
– Now, let’s look at competition wearing another lens. On reasonable introspection, the obvious take away is that we are the ones coming in our path. That said, since the obstacle is the way, what if we remain consistent and engaged on our path to exploring, making things better, showing up and shipping out, the rather counter intuitive conclusion is that we are at best in competition with ourselves and not anyone or anything external. This, irrespective of whether the external conditions or environment is in our favour or not.
The best part of competition especially when we treat it intrinsically is that through it we discover what we are capable of – and how much more we can actually do than we ever believed possible.