Is it necessary to be highly competitive to be highly successful?

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Is it necessary to be highly competitive to be highly successful?

The human race today, is striving for success. We choose those paths which will bring success to us, not those which we want to choose. We bend our paths, break rules, create rules and at the end of it make sure that success is at our feet – by hook or by crook. I too want to be successful in life, enjoy the luxuries , the good life.But, success at the cost of our morals, our ethics isn’t the kind of success I would like to achieve.

Competition is without a doubt important. If we don’t have competition in the society, people would become complacent thinking they are the best without actually knowing where they stand. Competition gives us a motive to go ahead. It gives us passion to become a winner and it keeps making us realize the need for self improvisation.

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Thus, they are both of great magnitude. But, the complexity comes in when we have to choose between the two. Competition is unavoidable in today’s world as everyone is endeavoring to make his mark in the society and all these people have their own way of doing that. Some adopt bribery, some adopt corruption and some simply adopt the scheme of pushing the competitors out of their way – any way possible. But, there are also some people who adopt morality, integrity and an attitude where they don’t move ahead alone, they make sure they take everyone they know along ...

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