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To be "better than" is not necessarily to be "good.'"
Competition between people ensures only one thing: if you win, you will have done a better job at whatever it is than the other person did. That does not mean, however, that you will have done a truly good job.
To compete does not ensure certain excellence. It merely ensures comparative success. And the problem with that is that it distracts us from discovering what good might actually be.
Competition between thinkers is especially dangerous. It keeps their attention on each other as rivals, not on the huge potential for each to think courageously for themselves.
A Thinking Environment prevents internal competition by using particular processes to set up a wholehearted, unthreatened, selfless search for good ideas.
Encouragement: Giving courage to go to the unexplored edge of issues by eliminating internal competition
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