"At first this puzzled me. Why would one go back to letting Self 1 control the show if the results were so clearly less effective?"
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"they vehemently criticize competition." What is not usually admitted is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, then that would count. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly this belief is the same as that of the competitor trying to prove himself
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"But something was missing. I didn’t experience a desire to win, and as a result I often lacked the necessary determination" "Was there a determination to win that wasn’t an ego trip?"
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"If he just wanted to be “in the now,” he could do that on a medium-size wave. Why does the surfer wait for the big wave?" "It is only against the big waves that he is required to use all his skill, all his courage and concentration to overcome"
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"*Only by competing with you does he in fact cooperate! No one wants to stand around on the court waiting for the big wave" "true competition is identical with true cooperation"
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"If I assume that I am making myself more worthy of respect by winning, then I must believe that by defeating someone, I am making him less worthy of respect. I can’t go up without pushing someone else down. This belief involves us in a needless sense of guilt."
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"As far as I’m concerned, this is Self 1 trying to make a better Self 1. The dog chases its own tail. "
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