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I fully get the point, Melissa. But isn’t (healthy) competition not part of life? At least when competing with you younger self? If you want to improve and to learn? I think we don’t need this competition about best outfits, best grades or who has the „smartest children“ kind of, but we need competition about how to make things happen, how to bring real value tobte world, how to learn and improve.

melissa 1y ago 💬 1

Maybe. I have spent a lot of time in collectivist cultures and I greatly prefer that. I am more of a collaborator rather than a competitor. I don't really understand why we need competition to make things happen (we can work together as a team). Nostr is a great example of this where different developers are working together to make this protocol amazing. I don't feel like I personally need competition to learn and improve. Maybe it's nice to look out at the world and see areas I can do better, but to me, that is simply a worldview 🤷‍♀️

My thought is that competition is a very Western way of thinking a lot of the time. It's often a good means of directing attention to things that maybe don't matter as much as we are indoctrinated to believe? I am always open to being wrong and there can sometimes be more than one way to achieve things tok 💛😊

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Thomas 1y ago

Appreciate your answer, Melissa. Think I got what you mean. For me though it’s not either competition or teamwork. You can have both at the same time. Cannot explain it that precisely. It’s like if you work in the Nostr Team you still compete against the X Team or Meta Team kind of. Maybe not directly and aggressively but you want to build something better, an alternative. Hope that makes sense. You are completely right though that in many areas we could lower competition and set a more collaborative approach and mindset. Like with nation states, colleges, neighborhoods or even within family.