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RE: Competitive Spirit - A World Threat?
I am a big fan of competition. It is part of our nature and is part behind the motivation that keeps us pushing to become better, to grow.
That being said, there is always the question of how said competitive behaviour shows itself and in what areas it shows. For example, I am a big fan of competitions when it comes to sport. I am no fan of competitions when it comes to work and work-life.
In my perfect world, we would experience a healthy, friendly competition on targets and topics that help us become better humans.
Glad to know about your opinions.
Personally, more than competitive sports, I love collaborative games where everybody wins and enjoys. As long as the purpose of sport is recreation and fun, it's fine, but sometimes sports between National teams of rival countries create a lot of tension and even riots at times. Ever heard about cricket matches between India and Pakistan? These are more of diplomatic symbolism and commercial opportunities than merely a sport.
I like the idea of collaborative games. In fact, everything should be a collaborative game.
Let's make curing cancer a collaborative game. Bet that will yield better results than having medicine being an economic factor.
How about helping people who are hungry and needy? Making an collaborative effort out of trying to help them sounds better than having some bullshit charitable organization ask for donations that are being used to run the organization in the first place.
Feel like we would actually make some progress if we would actually handle topics with this kind of mindset. At least more progress than we do right now when it comes to topics like these.
That's really a great idea! We can certainly achieve more through collaborative approach than competitive one. We only need to put our thoughts in that direction and we will come up with many brilliant ideas like yours.
We could make it a contest!
Team America vs Team Europe, whoms collaboratives efforts cure cancer first wins. Then we take the best scientists of both teams and match them up against the scientists of some parallel universe and see whether we can do something cool about AIDS.
I sound a bit like I am making fun, but I actually believe that would lead better results that become openly available for anyone.