Why We Compete?

Competition is innate in the human species. We compete for resources, mates, abundance and pride.

In the modern world we compete in sports and less so, military conflicts. We compete for mates still and jobs.

Winning feels good.

Companies compete. Or at least the stakeholders/employees compete.

Philosophy is becoming more competitive too. Some people want to win you over to their side. They are not happy hearing the diversity of thought. They simply want you to agree with, and adopt, their point of view.

Unlike the sportsmanship seen at sporting events, where they shake hands at the end, there seems to be less of that with opposing points of view in the modern world.

We can remain competitive and try to influence people’s point of view but we might want to be more sportsmanlike, regardless of win, lose or draw.