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The Dynamics of Competitive Mentality

 

By Oyvind Hennum

 

Life is not a competition. Not at all. Life itself is abundant and rich and overflowing.

 

Take a look at a tree full of ripe fruits or a field full of grain. Just by looking at it, it makes you feel rich and abundant. And you feel that there is more than enough for everybody.

 

But usually, the abundant mentality stops there.

Many of us were born and raised with a strong belief system that says that there is never enough of what we need or want.

For many, this is also more than a belief--it is a fact of life. There is not enough food, not enough money, not enough love, etc. You learn to think that if you don't make sure to take your part, someone else will take it.

 

That is where you start to believe that life is a competition. You have to be better, stronger, faster, prettier, taller, and skinnier or whatever else you can be more than others.

But the fact is that.......

 

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