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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 644635" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>Although this is far from the point I was making in the OP, I would like to talk about that competitive spirit a bit more. Winning is the goal of any competition, sports or other. No issue there, everybody gets that. But as <strong>RichTaff </strong>and <strong>das </strong>elude to it, the American way of thinking (as a good example) has taken that competitive mindset and made it into such an exaggeration it turns on the ridiculous. It gets silly, is what I'm saying. </p><p>You see it in the NBA: players constantly, constantly, cons-tan-tly repeat how much they hate to lose, how competitive they are. Michael Jordan during the 92 Olympics in Spain kept playing a teammate at ping-pong who was really good at it, so does the anecdote go, and kept losing and asking to play again. He said he couldn't accept losing at anything. During MJ's HOFame speech, he must have pronounced the word "competitive", or the phrase "because I was so competitive" at least 30 times in 20minutes of self-centered blabber.</p><p>There's a point where it just gets SILLY, downright stupid - is what I'm saying here. Like, do everything you can to be the best you can be and sacrifice for the team, that's all good, but then there's nothing more to it. It gets just childish and utterly silly when you put your head down and become desperate for success, and can't see anything else around.</p><p>This will sound cheesy but it's nonetheless true, if you let competition become your life, you've already lost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 644635, member: 57076"] Although this is far from the point I was making in the OP, I would like to talk about that competitive spirit a bit more. Winning is the goal of any competition, sports or other. No issue there, everybody gets that. But as [B]RichTaff [/B]and [B]das [/B]elude to it, the American way of thinking (as a good example) has taken that competitive mindset and made it into such an exaggeration it turns on the ridiculous. It gets silly, is what I'm saying. You see it in the NBA: players constantly, constantly, cons-tan-tly repeat how much they hate to lose, how competitive they are. Michael Jordan during the 92 Olympics in Spain kept playing a teammate at ping-pong who was really good at it, so does the anecdote go, and kept losing and asking to play again. He said he couldn't accept losing at anything. During MJ's HOFame speech, he must have pronounced the word "competitive", or the phrase "because I was so competitive" at least 30 times in 20minutes of self-centered blabber. There's a point where it just gets SILLY, downright stupid - is what I'm saying here. Like, do everything you can to be the best you can be and sacrifice for the team, that's all good, but then there's nothing more to it. It gets just childish and utterly silly when you put your head down and become desperate for success, and can't see anything else around. This will sound cheesy but it's nonetheless true, if you let competition become your life, you've already lost. [/QUOTE]
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