The Competition Factor
The Differentiation Of Results When Faced With New Competition
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The Competition Factor
The Differentiation Of Results When Faced With New Competition
So many people have a desire to succeed in life.
They want to be the best...
They have been taught that being the best is how to succeed...
There is a craving for the recognition that comes with that success.
There is nothing inherently wrong with this...
But...
Here is the challenge that most people face...
They are not alone in these feelings.
“Many” people want to be the “best”.
“Many” people want that success.
“Many” people are competing.
And...
Not everyone will get it.
If your goal is to be the best at something...
Anything...
You’re going to be faced with competition.
Early in your career you may “be” the competition...
And as you are more established in your career you may be faced with newcomers.
What I see the majority of the time...
Is that there are two ways that people face competition.
How you face competition has a dramatic impact on whether you will find long-term success...
Or if you are on your way out.
The Competition Factor.
Most people view competition as a “threat”.
The problem here is that when we view things as a “threat”, it creates a Psychophysiological Reaction within us...
And that reaction inherently puts us at our worst...
Which eventually will become our downfall.
Maybe not immediately...
But it will eventually happen.
Why?
When we view something or someone as a “threat”...
It naturally triggers our Fight-of-Flight Response.
When this happens, our bodies will “literally” lock us out of our higher functioning capabilities...
Like...
Problem-Solving...
Creativity...
Innovation...
Learning...
And instead will favor other methods of responses...
Such as attacking the competition...
Safeguarding and entrenching what we have...
Or attempting to run to a different area to succeed.
But all of these responses become problematic in the long term.
When we are focused on attacking the competition...
We fail to pay attention to our own problems and stop working on developing ourselves further.
When we safeguard and entrench...
We begin to silo ourselves and block ourselves from being able to adapt, grow, expand as we are too focused on keeping what we have.
When we attempt to run to a different area to succeed...
We begin to create a habit of running the face of adversity, which over time makes us run from place to place without ever establishing any areas of our own.
In all of these scenarios...
The result becomes the same...
We begin to lose sight of the bigger picture.
The Competition begins to expand their area of control...
Their growth entices others - employees, stakeholders, customers, former allies - to transition to them.
As more move to the competition, our own tactics begin to make others lose faith and trust in us...
Whether it is because our attacks reveal a darker side of us that others find distasteful...
Our isolation makes us blind to the growth that is occurring outside of our domain...
Or our running reveals that we have no solid foundation.
We have seen this happen in the Tech Industry...
Where their battles with each other have caused most tech companies to lose sight of their employees and customers who have grown to resent them.
We have seen this in the Western Medical Industry...
Where battles with Alternative Methods have made people lose Faith in the Establishment, especially when Alternative Methods have proven to be far more effective, and Western Medicine’s Methods have been proven to be purposefully skewed.
The result is that when you begin to see Competition as a threat...
You begin to make poor choices...
Which over time erode your position.
Again, it may not happen immediately...
But this is “solely” a factor of Category Design Economics and “not” Leadership Capabilities...
And when a New Category is Created...
Either the Older Category must “absorb” the new category, while also failing to improve the New Category...
As we have seen with Meta and their acquisitions over the years which fail to be Innovative after absorption...
Or the New Category Destroys the Older Category...
As we have seen with Netflix and Blockbuster or Canon and Kodak.
This the how most individuals and organizations see Competition, and it becomes their undoing.
But, there is another way to see Competition...
As Opportunities.
When we begin to see Competition as an Opportunity, it unleashes a different area of our Psychophysiology.
Whenever our Competition release something new upon the world...
It creates Intrigue...
We see Novelty in what they are creating...
It can reveal Growth Opportunities that we may have been missed...
This can create a desire for us to Focus on our own opportunities, and perhaps connect dots that we could or would not have without this Competition.
All of these are pathways to unlock Flow States...
Which is where we learn faster...
Feel our best...
Unlock more Creativity...
Become more Productive...
And Exponential Innovation begins.
If we lean into this consistently...
It can then create a Virtuous Cycle where you begin to succeed at higher and higher levels, faster.
The competition becomes a catalyst for your own growth.
I was reminded of this recently on a platform that I publish articles on.
I became the #1 Creator in their Psyche Community in December of last year...
And my Competition from that time disappeared.
It stayed like that until August of this year...
When a new Competitor popped up in the Top 5 Creators in the Psyche Community on the platform.
They are a gifted writer and have earned their place.
And...
They kept moving up.
Now they are sitting at the Number 3 Creator in the Community...
And they keep showing up, and I suspect that they will soon be the Number 2 Creator based on their efforts.
This, to me, is exciting.
Having active and worthy competition means that I need to be on my toes...
Ready to keep moving forward...
Keeping my skills up...
To stay worthy of keeping the Number 1 Spot myself.
Indeed, so far I have been rising to the challenge...
And it is keeping me sharp, which I am thankful for.
When combined with other aspects of Psychophysiology, like the Halo Effect, it has been helping me grow in other areas of my life and business, too.
When you have this type of relationship when Competitors start to make their way up...
It unlocks the best of our Psychophysiology to drive us to higher levels of success.
Which end of the Competition Factor do you lean toward?
Which way should you focus on to get the results that you want in the future?
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So now the question becomes…
How do you transition from feeling Threatened…
To see the competition as an Opportunity?
That is what we will go over next, and I have 5 Tips to do it…
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