Competition, survival, and polarity

[Stranger]

I wanted to talk about gray area examples - say somebody isn't necessarily consciously looking to play dirty or polarize negatively, but they have a very hard time performing without very intensely visualizing themselves winning, and cultivating a very strong desire to win (which is synonymous with defeating the competition). Is having that strong of a desire depolarizing or even negative?

What if somebody is dependent on that desire for their career or other practical necessities because of the way manifestation works? There's a whole range of situations and emotions between loving everyone unconditionally and wanting to manipulate.

It's good that you qualified "win" as "(which is synonymous with defeating the competition)", because that is exactly the key point: polarity depends on your definition of "winning."

As you define it, it is negatively polarizing. Working to defeat the competition is clearly and unequivocally wishing a negative (to them) outcome on that person or group. There's no wiggle room there. "I want you to be defeated." Where is the goodwill in that? The sense that we are brothers, that we are one, the desire to accept and welcome them into the heart as they are? Instead, it's ill-will and control - "it's not that I'm trying to do my best - it's that I want to cause you to experience defeat, something you do not wish to happen to you."

It's quite obvious, really.

[Navaratna]

Imagine a world where no one ever competed though.

The Internet was designed by the military.

Meaning competition led people to innovate. People from different backrounds developed technology in order to gain the upper hand over each other, but it led to more creativity. If people weren't driven to compete and innovate we would be kind of lame. As intriguing as the ancient world can be, imagine having to take like 3 years on a boat to get from Egypt to England then 3 years back and when you get back, information spreading by word of mouth so that a decade onward people still had no idea that Stonehenge was conquered or something if they even knew if it existed to begin with and some people going like 15 years without ever even knowing such a thing happened, and getting on the next boat to go from a different port in Carthage. No thanks.

I remember one time being so upset over how doing the absolute minimum amount of work just picture some part time dumb job wasn't enough to live independently and someone told me "If life was that easy no one would aim any higher though."

It's kind of true. Imagine how in a place like Cuba where the max wage is something like $20/h so it's fair for everyone. A person making tips as a waiter can often make more money than a scientist or doctor. Who would want to study information technology? A lot of people would give up and just go be a janitor while being a waiter on the weekends.

Competition leads to innovation. Feelings get hurt but I'm glad we're not stuck in the stone age in an emotional safety bubble.

[sillypumpkins]

And even with people in creative fields - is it depolarizing to want your creative product (video game, book, album, movie, youtube video) to do extremely well, knowing that it may take attention away from other creative products released around the same time?

You might like my very first post on the forums: https://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthre...?tid=17932