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E. Why competition plays a major role in success?
Let us recall again that success is an emotion. It is the entire story of setting the goal to achieve the goal. This story has the high and the low and is the story of your struggle. Achievement is short-lived and momentary, but success is stored in our memory.
If there are no roadblocks and no competition, then there is no struggle and no lows and highs in your story. Therefore the story itself becomes less emotional. The more highs and lows a story has, the more emotional that story will be.
It is important to remember here that intensity of an emotion is not the positive feelings, but the number of events and their associated lows and highs that determines how strongly we feel an emotion.
So if you are only chasing the positive feelings and experiences in life, you will have fewer and fewer emotions. Because happiness is an emotion, happiness coming from achievement is a positive emotion, those who chase only achievement will become less and less emotionally sensitive over a period of time.
Competition comes to the rescue here. When you have more competition, you face more roadblocks. The more roadblocks and challenges you face in your journey to achieve the goal, the more negative and positive feelings and events will be present in your successful emotional story.
Therefore it is said that where there is no competition, there is no success.
The problem is, when you start seeing life only through the success story of achieving higher goals, your brain will feel less and less, and then the very competition will irritate you.
Why do we hate the competition if the competition is healthy?
In the beginning, the competition will appear healthy. This is because it will add the necessary ups and downs to your story. But the higher goal you set, the competition will be higher. Once you keep achieving, your brain will feel less, so it wouldn’t care for the success, and would want to only achieve. Because your success is the story that needs competition, the higher you go the higher competition will irritate your brain the more.
Persistent frustration of delayed and difficult achievement and irritation then starts making you angry, as the brain is not getting high, and also it is unhappy. Persistent unhappiness leads to aggression, and persistent aggression leads to hate.
Therefore in your higher goals, any roadblock will irritate, and frustrate you. If competition is the cause for such irritation, then you will start hating the competitor because you are already angry with yourself for not achieving smoothly.