Does Competition Make Us Better

Competition between peers makes people strive to try and be better than their opponents, and can be healthy or unhealthy depending on the competitors and their responses to the competition.

Alfie Kohn’s article “The Case Against Competition” describes the consequences that can result from extreme competition. He writes that, “Competition is to self-esteem as sugar is to teeth.” In this quote, the author is trying to say that competition damages self-esteem in the same way that sugar damages teeth. That is partially true, but sugar is only unhealthy when you have too much of it and when you don’t properly care and look after your teeth. Sugar is actually important because it provides our body with important energy so as long as you consume a reasonable amount and have good oral hygiene, there is no problem. The same concept would apply to competition; it’s only detrimental if there’s too much and you’re not properly looking after yourself. Everything, and I mean everything, is unhealthy if there’s an excessive amount of it, but that doesn’t you can’t have anything that could have a negative consequence. If that were the case, people would never do anything because of the small risk of something going wrong. Yes, there is a risk to everything but generally speaking, most things help you more than they hurt you. For instance, we need water, but drinking too much water will literally kill you. We need sunshine because it has vitamin D, but overexposure to sunlight will cause skin cancer. Does that mean we should stop drinking water and not go outside because it can hurt us if there’s too much? No, of course not. The key is moderation. Having too much or too little of anything is not good for you, but you can avoid hurting yourself if you just find the right balance. Given these points, competition is only bad for a person if there’s an overwhelming amount of it, but nothing will go wrong with a reasonable quantity of

In conclusion, Does competition lead to better products and results, or does it lead to a focus on winning at all costs? Competition keeps people honest by not letting them fill or be entitled. It keeps people at there best all the time which is good for society. And it makes goods and services better for the consumer. So to answer the question yes it does lead to better products and

After reading Children Need to Play, Not Compete by Jessica Statsky I thought she brought up some very valid points. I do think that this is a topic that should be scrutinized. I have a different view of the subject. I think that competition can be physically, and psychologically harmful if left unchecked by "abusive/uncaring" adults. I do think that with the right, caring and team work fostering environment competition can fostered without harmful effects, and can lead to learning lifelong skills that can bring emotional joy.

No one is perfect. We disrespect, judge, provoke, and fight with each other which is wrong. We should be able to let people be who they are without the fear of being judged and discriminated against. Competition is a good thing. It makes us want to become better, stronger, smarter, more athletic, more productive and also more innovative. Although competition can get really intense it should be seen as a method of self-development. It should not give you the right to make others feel bad about themselves it should bring us together by trying to achieve the similar goal of being the

Children pay attention to winning and earning a trophy for doing good. Earning a trophy is a special moment for kids because they get to feel the feeling of they've accomplished something. Participation trophies don’t benefit children as much as learning what it's like to lose.

Mann, W. C., & Svorai, S. B. (1994). COMPETE: A Model for Vocational Evaluation, Training,

One example of this is the multiple competitions that science olympiad participates in. What I mean by this is that students can have fun going against others throughout the year. Also, we can see how good we are and compare our scores with past scores to make improvements. This is usually quite fun. Another example of competition is competing within our group. Only half the kids in the club can go to the statewide competition. This means that we have to push ourselves to work harder. It also means that we have an air of friendly competition. Which makes things much more fun. Of course, science olympiad is also very much a competition of knowledge and

Trying matters; but, when it comes down to it, the point of playing sports or participating in competitive events is to win. So why settle? Understanding the difference between winning and losing is a critical life lesson. It teaches children how to deal with and triumph over adversity, especially those children do not always get what they want. It also teaches them how to bounce back and recover from loss, while also providing the drive and purpose to be better. Few lessons are more important than that ("Performance And Protection Spotlights").

Competitive sports are a topic that is still heavily debated on, even today. Most people have formed a very strong opinion on this issue, and on whether or not competitive sports is detrimental to children’s and teens’ health and well-being. However, I believe that when children and teens play competitive sports, this leads to many downsides, and negative side-effects, including: the increased risk of health issues compared to other types of sports, a decreased enjoyment of the actual activity, and the loss of kids’ and teens’ confidence and self-esteem, which could lead to other, but no less important, issues, such as substance abuse and stress, due to the competitive and winning-focused nature of these kinds of sports.

Ever since my formative years, I’ve constantly been, as my friends say, frighteningly competitive. Whether it was who could paint the prettiest petunia in preschool or who could answer the most questions during Friday afternoon academic team practices in the chemistry lab, I always wanted to win. I enjoy the rush of adrenaline that floods through my body during a competition. But regardless of the area of competition, I treasure the satisfaction of being able to reach my goal every single day. Whether it may be my absence of artistic talent as a toddler or my lack of agility as an adolescent, I know that I am overcoming my weaknesses, step by step (pun

Losses invites a change of strategies, and in the process of recovering from a loss, you learn how to avoid the mistake you have done in the future. For example, in baseball,

Not everyone believes competitive sports are good for kids. Some people believe competitive sports are harmful to kids. Competitive sports are good because they improve overall health, teach life lessons, and positively impact kids lives.

Losing is a better teacher than winning can be. If someone wins, they don’t know what they did wrong because since they won they did everything correct, right? Not really, if someone wins something, it could be a case of luck, the other team could have easily had a bad game and wasn’t really doing their best. Someone could’ve gone up against a team that is at a much lower skill level than they were and they could’ve won by a major score margin. This puts them in the position of, “what do I practice?”, that is one reason losing is a better teacher since it gives people a sense of what they did wrong.

Michael E. Porter, associate professor published the article titled “How Competitive Forces shape Strategy” in Harvard Business Review in 1979. This article is retitled as “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy” and published in Harvard Business Review in 2008. Michael E. Porter developed the model of Five Competitive Forces which is defined as “Competitive Strategy – Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors”. It has become a main device for analyzing an organizations structure in strategic practices.