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Do you have a competitive drive? Yes but it's almost non-existant
Do you enjoy competing? Generally no, I find it frustrating and often pointless
Professionally, Academically, or Athletically? If ever, it would have to be professionally and academically
If you do enjoy competition, what drives you? I don't enjoy it much, because I usually look at the big picture and when I do I see how meaningless it is, but when I am driven, it's usually because I don't want someone obnoxious getting the better of me, or because I want to show off - not great emotions to have
If you don't, what holds you back? I don't think it's important to win to affirm myself, I think it«s more important to know how to relate to others
Do you think that your status as a woman has much to do with your stance? I think so. Being totally non PC, I think there are certain things that a majority of women have in common, as do men. Feel free to strike me down, but I think women generally consider relationships with others and getting on well with them to be more important than winning or being better at a given activity. With men there is a tendency among men to want to affirm their status as better than x or y, and competing in several ways is a form of doing that. I'm generalising but I think it applies in many situations.
Just one thing - I think this thread would be far more interesting if the men could give their opinion also.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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