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by zupatol
1341 days ago
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I'm surprised to find very positive question about pushing yourself. I'm not at all into sports, and from the title I expected a psychology of competition and wanting to beat the others, which sounds horrific in the workplace. Instead it almost sounds like people would even do sports without medals. How much of sports would remain without striving for worthless tokens and aggressivity? |
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Thanks for your comment and this great question! In my opinion, almost all of it would remain, as the true draw of sports is to push yourself to new heights, to do things you didn't think possible. My evidence for this is the intensity and dedication that goes into non-mainstream sports (such as my own, beach volleyball in the U.S.). The athletes in these areas aren't striving for fame and fortune, because there really isn't that much to be had even at the top level. They just want to be better than they were yesterday, and worse than they'll be tomorrow :)