During our last Team France Training, we were confronted to a general atmosphere of competition within our very group which led to feelings of suspicion, jealousy and covetousness, in contradiction to the team bonding we had achieved, and against own will.
I observed it with an outside eye and the situation didn't affect me, because I felt apart from the group due to my injury--and thus not really concerned, and also because I had already settled my competition dilemma a while ago, in my two previous lives, as a dancer and as a freestyler.
Yet, that situation gave me food for thought as my previous experiences were in a context of individual and creative sports, i.e. the opposite of derby, a performance and team sport. In derby, two different types of competition should be highlighted:
- competition with opposing teams on games, etc. but also
- competition with individual team mates within teams.
GOOD COMP', BAD COMP'
To keep it VERY simple, and whatever the context, I would define those two notions as such:
- Bad competition is about domination by crushing.
- Good competition is about exploiting your potential to the max.
The
person you have to surpass is yourself. Not because you are your own
enemy but because YOU ARE YOUR OWN NORM and in order to evolve, you
should pass that bar and set it higher. For your personal rising.
