Comparing yourself to others can lead to self-improvement. You win competitions by comparing yourself to your competition and improving with respect to the performances of your competition.
While comparing one's self with others can lead to self-improvement, that may tend to occur in an overall context of resilience and stability in the face of feedback, maintaining good sportsmanship with dignity for all persons, and score-keeping grounded in facts (
such as learning one's IQ score rather than guessing at it), not while posting extremes ranging from highs (
such as belief in one's superiority and accomplishments with ease, while labeling others as losers or idiots) to lows (
such as fearing a future full of failures and staying a loser forever, thinking no one ever agrees with your ideas or opinions, believing you are dismissed as an idiot, and that insults are a huge impediment to your ultimate goals).
While a competitor may win a competition by studying the performance of other competitors, there are significant differences between a competition and everyday life. For example:
- persons
consent to a competition and register to enter,
- competitions are limited by
boundaries such as specified dates/times, places, and skills,
- persons are aware
that they will be competing,
- persons are aware of
when and
where they will be competing,
- persons are aware of
what skills they will be competing on.
Competition entered into by mutual consent, with understanding of and agreement to the boundaries, is different than someone unilaterally declaring competition on unsuspecting persons in everyday life, with a personal goal of gathering evidence that their own intelligence outshines the intelligence of others, and stating a belief that nothing other than gathering this evidence and proving this point will satisfy them.
