[0:00]What if I told you 90% of people completely misunderstand the concept of competition, and here's what I mean by it. I either know people that are super competitive, or I either know people that are scared of competition, and I'm going to reveal to you here why. By the way, if this video, this message gives you value, give it a thumbs up and subscribe at the end. Let me get right into it. So competition, if people understood that competition is your best friend to help your dream. If your dream becomes a reality without competition in 22 years, with competition and became a reality in 11 years, is it worth you embracing the concept of competition? Let's talk about it. Okay. So why do most people fear competition? They either lost in the past, they had a humiliating loss, it was a public loss, people laughed at you, it was embarrassing, you didn't like it. The pressure was unnecessary, you had sleepless nights thinking about a competition, thinking about a debate, thinking about whatever it is. And it created all this angst and you're like, oh my gosh, I cannot stand it, right? Okay. To me, I've seen competition in three different levels and embrace one of these three. Decide to make one of these three your best friend. So lowest level of competition that is still healthy for you. It's focusing on beating your prior best. Look, I don't care what you're doing. If the most calls you made in a day is 82, beat 83. I don't give the other guy the 228. If yours is 82, beat 82, go to 83. If the most money you ever made in a month is $10,000, who cares if Elon Musk is worth 280? You go make $11,000. If the most sales you made in a month is seven, the other guy, the number one guy in the office is 42. You make eight, beat your prior best. It's the most basic fundamental concept of competition is you're competing with your prior best. Number two, those who compete because they want respect in an office, meaning they come in, and it's like, look, let me tell you, oh my God, Johnny is here. Johnny is here, Johnny is here, Johnny, that guy's a competitor. I respect them as a competitor. There's a certain level of respect that you get as a competitor, right? So second level of competition is you want your peers in the marketplace to respect you. That that respect that they're giving you that you're a legit competitor, the highest level of competition is not for everybody. This is the part that most people fear. The highest level of competition is when people fear you, okay? Now, when I say fear you, there are many scenes in sports that when a guy steps on the floor, you see the other side of players, they just kind of turn their heads like this. There's a scene when LeBron James is playing, I believe against the San Antonio Spurs, and he sees this young kid, who's a kid at the time, Kawhi Leonard, stepped back in the floor. You should see the scene if you've ever seen it. LeBron is like, oh my gosh, this guy's back in. Why? Because because knew how to guard him. There are scenes with Brady, when they're ahead against the Falcons and they're celebrating the Falcons on the other side and one of the teammates on the Falcons says, dude, don't celebrate. There's a guy on the other side named Brady, relax, fear, that fear you impose. Michael had it, Kobe had it, some politicians have it when they get on the debate stage. That's a different level of respect. That is not for everybody. Now if you're listening to this and you're saying, man, I want that kind of respect, I want to be feared as a dominator. No problem, but just so you know, like if you thought this is demanding to beat your prior best. Like if this is demanding to, you know, be, you know, respected as a competitor, I can't even go like this because it's like a skyscraper with a hundred floors where I got to take my hand for you to be feared as a dominator. It's a very it's 1% of 1% of 1%. It ain't everybody. So it's very, very demanding to get to that level. But all I'm saying to you is the lowest level is beat your prior best. By the way, another thing that people get wrong with competition is the following thing. Three levels of ways people compete. Most people only compete down. I'm making better money than my sister. I'm making better money than my brother. I'm making better money than my dad. I'm making better money than this. It's always competing down and comparing themselves to people below them. That's the weakest level of competing. It is so weak it's cowardly, you're better than that. If you're doing that, change it. At least move up to the next level of competition. You shouldn't be celebrating beating people below you. Second level of competition is competing with people at the same level as you. That's fair. Same level, it's good, you're playing with someone that's same level skill set as you. YMCA, YMCA, all that's the same level, right? But the highest level of competition that puts so much pressure on you to improve, is when you're playing with people that are better than you. Now, I'm not saying my eight-year-old kid goes and plays with Michael.
[4:36]But I am saying my eight-year-old kid plays with 11-year-olds. I am saying my eight-year-old kid goes and plays soccer with 12-year-olds. That are way better than him, skill set wise. He's going to sit there and say, but if this eight-year-old kid plays with a 22-year-old, it's not even a game, it's unfair because the kid's running much faster than him. But you have to be choosing at every level, test yourself to compete against somebody that's a little bit ahead of you. Maybe you can have a vision of saying one day I want to beat Johnny. He's so ahead of you, that's a vision, but immediate, go up against people ahead of you. So let's recap again, okay? Let's recap again, three things. The lowest level of competition that everybody watching is, even a person that fears the word competition, the C word scares you more than the F word, it offends you more than the F word. Lowest level, just focus on beating your prior best. Number two, get respect from your competitors. Number three, only for a few, most of you are not going to commit to this and I totally respect you for not doing it, because it's very hard, is being feared as a dominator then competition. Don't compete below, compete at the same level, but if you really want to kind of put yourself against seeing what you're made up of, start competing with people above you. If you got value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
