Real Competition starts within || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Competition and stress in student life || Acharya Prashant, at ICT-Mumbai (2022) Link: https://youtu.be/uusWkmUzeCs

Transcript

00:00You insult yourself, you degrade yourself when you limit yourself in any way.

00:06And one sure shot way of limiting yourself is by thinking of the opponent as great or very superior.

00:15That's the wrong kind of competitiveness.

00:18When your opponent beats you, ask yourself, how did I play so badly?

00:23I admire that. I concede you played a wonderful shot.

00:26But before you played that great shot, something else happened.

00:29What was that? I offered you an easy ball.

00:34I'm not going to do that. That's real competitiveness.

00:37Real competitiveness introspects.

00:40Real competitiveness looks at oneself and tries to raise the bar within.