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To compete or not to compete
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My last blog centred around the case of a sportsman with a competitive mentality. Coincidentally during a casual chat with a reader last night we talked about competition again. What transpired during the chat was that I shared my belief in benefitting from the competition but not from the competitor.
What does this mean? We can benefit from the competition by motivating ourselves to improve our skills in that field with more training. Another way of benefitting from the competition is raising the awareness and acceptance level of the industry as a whole. This is especially fitting for an industry like metaphysics which is not a widely accepted industry nor has high demand for its services because it is not part of the basic necessities for human’s daily subsistence.
Benefit not from our competitor is as simple as not engaging in both covert and overt manoeuvres to oust your competitor. Such manoeuvres include criticism, bad-mouthing, espionage, lobbying and more. Skpetics may think that removing a competitor is the surest way to boost your own bottomline. From a big picture perspective, competitors help to raise the profile, avoid legislation for anti-competition, achieve economies of scale for the same industry. Remember the best markets in the world are competitive or at best oligopolistic but never a true monopoly.
We still need our competitors by our side! Without competitors, Michael Jordan will be just another nice-to-watch sportsman with nothing to show for in terms of titles and achievements. An astute person sees a competitor as an opportunity; a myopic person sees a competitor as a threat.
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