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Originally Posted by skier
Life is not a competition.
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Oh yes, yes it is.
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Live instead of being the best at surviving. The only true measure of success you can use is yourself- take intrinsic value in bettering yourself and your life instead of comparing how well you do by someone else's standards.
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You can definitely measure lots of success by looking at others. Just remember that the goal is to constantly strive to better yourself, not to become better than those around you. It's a subtle but important difference. I do strongly agree that the intrinsic motivation is important; people shouldn't base their feelings and perceptions on strictly extrinsic things.
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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)
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