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Sunday Firesides: Your Worst Competitor Is You

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Kate McKay
Dec 25, 2024
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“You should only compete with yourself.”

“Just try to be your own very best.”

In a time when competing with others has come to be frowned upon as unsavory and shallow — pissing contests for the insecure — such maxims have arisen as pointers towards a seemingly higher ideal.

But like many modern pieces of wisdom, while this philosophy sounds wonderful in th…

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