sidenote
October 3, 2005 – 5:46 pmas a sidenote to the comment below - why is everyone so obsessed with competition and competitiveness? I mean really - we are so weighed down with the framework of go-go-go, get-it! and competition appears to be inherent in that. so many people seem to think that if we don’t encourage competitive behaviour, people would be ‘lazy’.
so as a result we have a lot of unhappy people - who are stressed about their grades, whether they can go faster at the gym than other people, whether they are happier than other people, whether they have better blogs..blah blah the list goes on.
you can opt in or opt out. or at least choose to reduce the no. of things you worry about in this way.
i say to the competitive types: leave me alone, i ain’t playing your game.