Don't compete

The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping, eating, smiling, chatting with friends, and spending time with your cat. But, who here is really winning? Imagine our society as a living and breathing organism with its own agenda. What would be on its agenda? First of all, like you, society would want to not die. Second, like you, it would want to thrive. Ask yourself – how can the society achieve these things? The only agency our society has is via its constituents, i.e. you and me. The society acts by having its members act. (It’s pretty much the same for you – your agency is realized by your body cells). So, for a society to survive and thrive, it needs to reward its agents when they do things that help in its preservation and growth. This reward comes in ... Read full article.