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ambition
a strong drive for
success
to seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to
covet
a cherished
desire; "his ambition is to own his own
business"
an eager, and sometimes an inordinate,
desire for preferment,
honor,
superiority,
power, or the attainment of something
"Keep comparing
yourself to others and
see how badly you
can feel about yourself.
It's not
masochistic; it's the
American way." - Meghan Daum
"Play is a luxury, a frivolity relegated to the
cracks within the schedule of productive, educational, and developmental activities. The
competitive demands of adulthood today dictate that no time be wasted in play,
because every moment at play is a moment where you could be getting ahead in
life, preparing for the future.
The primacy of competition in
nature (and
human nature) dovetails
closely with the ideology of the discrete
self living in an objective universe.
Life as a competition for
resources necessitates that there be
competitors, discrete subjects whose conflicting interests drive the constant
struggle for survival. It also implies a distinction between
life and resources,
that translates in our perceptions to a distinction between self and world." - Charles
Eisenstein
"The inability to identify
with others was unquestionably the most important psychological condition for
the fact that something like Auschwitz could have
occurred in the midst of more or less civilized and innocent people.
What is called fellow traveling was primarily business interest: one
pursues one's own advantage before all else, and simply not to endanger
oneself, does not talk too much. That is a general law of the status quo. The
silence under the terror was only its consequence.
The coldness of the
societal monad, the isolated competitor, was the precondition, as indifference
to the fate of others, for the fact that only very few people reacted. The
torturers know this, and they put it to test ever anew." - Theodor
Adorno
There is football, basketball, baseball and soccer!
There is car races, foot races, balloon races and dog races!
There is The Biggest Loser, The Bachelorette, Wheel of Fortune and
Survivor!
Competition for breakfast, competition for lunch and
competition for dinner!
There is the race for Congressman, the race for
Senator and the race for President!
There is the race to be the first
to patent a product, the race to be the first to copywrite a saying and there
is, the most important race of all, the race to marketing success!
There is Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent and Who Want's to
be a Millionaire!
Competition for breakfast, competition for lunch and
competition for dinner!
The duality of
competition requires an
individual or group of
individuals to
succeed while
another
individual or group of
individuals
fail.
In 2007 for ‘competitive fun' and as a morale
booster the Los Angeles Sheriff's held one day
competitions.
How many
people can you arrest?
How many cars can you impound?
Competition is
essentially detrimental to every important aspect of
human social
interactions !!!
Human
relationships, self-respect, enjoyment of leisure time, and even
productivity all increase when
individuals break out of the
neurotic
pattern of relentless
competition.
Intentional competition is an
individually
narcissistic state of
mind.
Narcissistic
individuals compete to establish
themselves as the most intelligent, the most attractive, or the
wealthiest.
Narcissistic
individuals compete in
school.
Narcissistic
individuals compete in the
work place.
Narcissistic
individuals compete in the
city, in the country,
on the mountains, in the valleys, on the plains and in the foothills.
Narcissistic
individuals compete because they
desire acknowledgement,
recoginition and
do so in an attempt to be viewed as
superior.
"Narcissism can be
conceptualized as a
self-regulating system, where
self-esteem and enhancement are sought through a
variety of social means with little regard for the
consequences borne by others.
Agentic traits, assertiveness,
extraversion, and self-esteem are all correlated
with narcissism.
Narcissism is associated with
benefits to the individual that are primarily affective and most evident in the
short-term, but the costs of narcissism are paid by others and,
eventually, by the individual as well. The rise in
narcissism may be positive in the
short term for individuals, but negative for other people, for
society, and for the individual in the long term.
College students were 30 % more narcissistic on average in 2006 than in
1980.
Students today have markedly higher and more unrealistic
expectations of success.
More than half of recent high school students (51%) predicted that they
would earn graduate or professional degrees, even though only 9% of 25- to
34-year-old high school graduates actually hold these degrees. In 1976, only
half as many (27%) predicted this outcome. During the same period, the
percentage of high school students who predicted that they would be working in
a professional job by age 30 also increased, from 41% to 63% . In
reality, only 18% of high school graduates ages 25
to 34 in both eras worked at professional jobs." - Jean Twenge
"Large-scale advertising is one
of the main factors in American
society that creates and
maintains a peculiar form of narcissism ideally suited to
consumerism. As such, it
creates artificial needs within people that directly
conflict with their capacity to form a satisfying and sustainable relationship
with the natural
world." - Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner
Continually striving to increase one's abilities at
doing some particular thing well is not to be confused with
competition !!!
Most major accomplishments throughout
history have been achieved simply out
of an individual's
desire to create something not out of a
desire to best the fellow next door.
Alfie Kohn, No Contest: The Case
Against Competition, believes
popular American concepts of
competition rest on
false assumptions centered around the concept of
Social Darwinism.
Social Darwinism is a late nineteenth century ideology
predicated on a corrupt understanding of the concept of survival of the fittest
used to justify social policies which make no distinction between those with
control of resources and those without assets.
Social Darwinism stress'
the notions of; a King/Emperor/Supreme Leader, in ancient times half man-half
god, a son of a sexual union of a mortal woman and a male patriarch procreator
god; competition between "legal persons" but allows no distinction between
penniless human men and women and international corporate conglomerates backed
with fungible assets in a firewalled database running on a megacomputer in the
basement of the Boot in Basel, Switzerland; suggests some men are superior, as
in the vein of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's Übermensch corrupted by Nazi
ideology to become Untermensch, genetically inferior sub-human - Jews, Gypsies,
Poles, Russians, Serbs, Belarussians, Ukrainians, Turks, Arabs, Persians,
Chinese, Africans, Eskimos, Hawaiians (pretty much all other cultural groups)
therefore concluding Imperialism is justified - "just bringing civilization to
the heathens!", the use of Eugenics is justified - "those darkies breed like
rabbits!", an obvious and apparent cognitively biased racial hypothesis based
on comparing apples and oranges due to a faulty understanding of sustainable
cultures - " those fools gave us Manhattan for a handful of glass beads - they
will never be able to make an economy hum!"
The first
myth, the myth of Social Darwinism, is that
competition between
humans is necessary.This
myth is based on a
fundamental misunderstanding of
Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.
It is falsely believed
that the phrase 'survival of the
fittest' implies an internal struggle among members of a
species from which only the strongest, most
competitive members emerge
victorious. This is incorrect if a species is spread
over a vast area. Survival is dependent upon
many changing environmental factors.
"Cooperation, and not competition, is
the primary basis of life and the primary engine of evolution."
- Charles
Eisenstein
"We've seen the gross misuse of evolution - under the guise
of Social Darwinism and the "survival
of the fittest" - to justify
class oppression, monopolies,
and imperialism." - David P. Barash
Survival of a species or sub species
biologically requires that the species or sub
species retain the ability to produce
surviving offspring who in turn
live to
reproduce. Continued
reproduction is the factor that predicates
success of a species or
sub species.
There is a tendency for groups
of animals and groups of
humans to
cooperate which contributes far
more to reproductive
success within the group than
competitive inclinations of
individuals directed within the
group.
A single violently fierce alpha
male begins a
slaughter with a single or multiple
murder within a family, a tribe or other
small group. Murder within this small
group consumes the group to the point
where there is a question of the continued viability of the group. If the
other males are all wiped out then if
reproduction continues it will be between
close family members.
Incest creates fatal genetic problems for future
generations ending with the family, tribe or small
group dying out.
A good example of this can be
seen recently in history with the experience of
Fletcher Christian and the other
mutineers of the Bounty who settled on Pitcairn
Island.
John Adams was the sole male survivor of the party that had landed just ten
years before.
Raising human offspring
was and is a difficult undertaking. Those who can work effectively with
others in the group are more
likely to be reproductively
successful over time.
In the past endangering one's own
life endangered the
lives of the other members of the
group.
Direct physically confrontational
competition has always been,
and still is, a risky strategy that rarely pays off.
Successful individual
human groups create
an inherited predisposition for cooperation in their offspring.
Cooperation is pervasive
within any successful civilization, successful nation, successful region, successful locality or successful family group. A
lone individual can
succeed only when he or she
cooperates with the larger
social order prevalent in the culture in which he or she resides.
American cultural
conditions are responsible for the pervasive
presence of
competition in
American society.
Children are taught by
popular culture, by the
television, by public education, by the actions and by the interests of
their elders to be competitive.
Orson is unable to
solve an arithmetic problem. The
teacher asks him to
think carefully. Orson is still unable to answer the
question as he realizes unwanted attention
is directed at him. The rest of the class responds with a
forest of waving
hands and much sighing. Finally
Erma is called upon and proudly
delivers the correct solution. Orson's
failure has made it possible for
Erma to succeed in being recognized.
To a Zuni,
Hopi, or Dakota native
American, Erma's performance would be
seen as cruel.
As such events do not occur in all cultures
competition is not inevitably
a part of human nature. No human
behavior is understood to
be an innate human trait if any one
culture does not exhibit it.
In cooperative
situations tremendous gain is derived from sharing one's skills in a helpful way with
others. Relationships of trust
and appreciation do more for one's
sense of well-being than the constant struggle to
win.
The original concept of play which
emphasizes process before outcome has become lost in the
competitive nature of American
culture. American
children have lost their
natural and spontaneous
love of play.
Cross cultural
research demonstrates
competition for older
American children is not fun with a simple game.
Two
children sit on
opposite sides of a checker board. A
marker is placed on the middle square and the
children are told that they will take
turns moving the marker one square at a time for a total of 20 moves. If a
child gets the marker to his side of the
board, he will receive a prize. Then the game will be played again (4 times
total), and the other
child will go first.
Four-and-five-year-old, Anglo-American and
Mexican-American children almost universally helped one
another take turns in
winning. That is, the
child who goes second moves the marker
in the direction of the other
child's
goal. Virtually every game ends
with one child getting a prize. These
children had ‘fun' and are happy.
Among seven-to-nine-year-olds the pattern changes completely. Both Anglo-American and Mexican-American children
prevent anyone from
winning 50 to 80 per cent of the
time. These children are not
happy. These children did not have ‘fun'.
Mexican
children seven-to-nine-year-olds with
little or no contact with American
culture manage to
cooperate and earn prizes in a
majority of the games. They had ‘fun' and were happy.
The fourth
myth is that
competitive frameworks make for the
highest levels of productivity.The
obvious futility of wasting one's energy preventing another from
winning provides the starting point
for the critique of competition's contribution to
productivity.
In the late 1970s a team of researchers at the University of Texas set out to identify the
personality characteristics that correlated with the highest levels of
professional performance. They reasoned that striving for mastery, a positive
attitude toward work, and
competitiveness would all correlate
positively with achievement.
High levels of
conscious orientation toward mastery of
skills were found among the highest achievers, but
the top achievers showed low levels of competitiveness. To test the result,
many more studies were conducted, each time using a
different sample of subjects - businessmen, college
students, airline reservation agents,
and grade school
students - and each time the same result was found.
Competitiveness consistently correlated
negatively with achievement. Those high in achievement were low in
competitiveness.
American belief in the
benefits of competition has
permeated America's cultural consciousness.
Competition practices have become
an entrenched part of American poplar
culture, American
education, American
business and American politics.
Competition can undermine
individual growth and
development, as well as
human relationships.
"The real alternative to being
number one is not being number two but being
psychologically
free enough to dispense with rankings all
together."- Alfie Kohn, American
author
"Television shows
like American Idol,The Swan and The Bachelor teach us,
things that are merely enjoyed - like singing, looking your best, falling in
love - are piteously
wasted. You have to make them into
contests." - Meghan Daum
autistic = a tendency to view life in terms of one's own needs and
desires
"Modern human beings are the only living beings
that think it is a good idea to completely eliminate the competition." -
Charles
Eisenstein
"Every CEO, it seems, has to be made to look like a
dashing Confederate cavalry general or a boardroom Elvis Presley. Real
leadership has little to do with 'leadership qualities'; and even less to do
with 'charisma.' It is mundane, unromantic, and boring. Its essence is
performance." - Peter F. Drucker*
"Cultural paterns operate socially only in concrete situations where
inter-personal and inter-group relations are
actually taking place. Here, we may distinguish autistic behavior as an
exclusively intra-personal function, from social
behavior involving inter-personal and inter-group relations." - Eric Trist
"Just win, baby" is the credo for our
corporatist society, so we shouldn't be surprised to see athletes,
politicians,
businessmen,
religious leaders and even students use and
abuse every weapon at their disposal to
achieve their goals. If we don't like the results, we have to
speak up, vote for and
put our hearts, minds and energy into better
government, law and
order, honesty and fairness." - Hal
Rothberg
The CEOs of 10 Wall Street firms that either failed
or received taxpayer bailouts were paid an average of $28.9 million per year in
the years leading up to the Wall Street meltdown. Their average pay this
decade, calculated through 2007, equaled 575 times the median American
family’s 2007 income.
“Fat cat compensation has nothing to do
with good corporate performance. These CEOs were exorbitantly compensated for
driving their companies off the cliff. At a minimum, Congress must ensure that
corporate leaders are paid for long-term performance, not short-term
illusions.” - ,” Robert WeissmanAt the core of every
massive corporate unraveling,
whether it is Sunbeam, Enron,
WorldCom,
Global Crossing,
Tyco,
Adelphia,
Long-Term Capital
Management, Kmart,
Schwinn,
Motorola, Rubbermaid,
Quaker Oats,
Iridium,
Conseco,
Johnson & Johnson or the
Helmsley Hotels, sits a
hypercompetitive manager or
CEO.
"At a minimum, those whose
competitiveness makes their reach
exceed their grasp are ineffective and unethical; at a maximum they are
downright detrimental to society." - Barbara
Kellerman
Hypercompetitive individuals often
think their self-worth is contingent on
winning. When they start any
activity, their first thought is, ‘I need to
win.' "- John Tauer
"The
take-no-prisoners competitors can be
very successful much more rapidly than win-win
competitors, mainly because they are obsessed, single-track and totally focused
on their own desired result." - Denis
Waitley
Hypercompetitors when asked to imagine an Earth without
competition foresee a general
collapse of the moral order. Some truly
believe we would
cease to exist were it not for
competition.
The gist of this
category of
competition is
self-aggrandizement, at the
expense of others. This is a
narcissistic
behavior.
Hypercompetitiveness individuals
typically may succeed in many parts of their lives,
but interpersonal, especially intimate, relations
are often deeply troubled.
Hypercompetitors ignore feedback effects.
Hypercompetitors lack both insight
and empathy.
"In healthy people, the more
you activate a portion of your frontal
lobes, the more accurate your view of
yourself is. The more you view yourself as desirable or better than your
peers, the less you use those frontal
lobes."- Jennifer Beer
A
2002 study in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology examined
romantic relationships of
hypercompetitive
individuals and found these
individuals reported lower
levels of honest communication with
the partner, greater infliction of pain on him or her, stronger
feelings of
possessiveness, higher levels of
mistrust, stronger needs to control their partner,
lower ability to understand their partners
perspective, and higher levels of
conflict.
On December 23, 2009 John Baldoni posted How to
Crack the Self-Awareness Paradigm on HarvardBusiness.org.
"For
example, you may think you communicate, delegate, supervise, and recognize
others well, but until you receive others' opinions on these things, you cannot
truly know." - John Baldoni
boys behaving badly
"The destiny of the wolf cub is to become a wolf,
even if it is reared among the sons of men." - Saadi of Shiraz
Antisocial personality
disorder (APD) is a mental disorder defined by the American Psychiatric
Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: "The essential feature for
the diagnosis is a pervasive pattern of disregard for,
and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early
adolescence and continues into adulthood." Considered essential features of the disorder are
deceit and manipulation.Common
characteristics of people with
antisocial personality
disorder include - persistent lying or stealing; recurring difficulties
with the law; tendency to violate the rights and boundaries of others
(property, physical, sexual, emotional, legal); aggressive, often violent
behavior; inability to tolerate boredom; disregard for the safety of self or
others; lack of remorse for hurting others; superficial charm; impulsiveness; a
sense of extreme entitlement; lack of guilt; relentlessness;
recklessness.
"There are few social sanctions - as contrasted
with legal or financial ones - for bad behavior. Executives who have served
jail time are back on television and are still
celebrities. More to the point,
they aren’t shunned by their
colleagues. The prevailing mood seems to be, as long as people retain
enough wealth, they can buy their way back by
donating time and money. If we are serious about enforcing norms,
then there have to be real sanctions." - Jeffrey PfefferThe CEO of Whole Foods market, John Mackey, made anonymous
internet forum postings disparaging Wild Oats market from 1999 to 2006 with the
intent to drive down the value of Wild Oats. John
Mackey posted comments stating the company "has no value and no future" and
that management "clearly doesn't know what it is
doing." Whole Foods made a hostile
takeover bid in February 2007. The postings came to light due to a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over
monopoly issues. (Once Whole Foods
put Wild Oats out of business they introduced a new line of "natural food"
which turned our to be standard non-organic chemically processed supermarket
foods. Gotta love the greed, sabotage and lying exhibited by American
Aristocrat and hypercompetitor John Mackey!)
psychopathsKunlangeta is a word Yupik
Eskimos apply to a man who repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, takes sexual
advantage of many women. Someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and
who is always being brought to the elders for punishment. In 1976,
anthropologist Jane M. Murphy asked an Eskimo man how his people might deal
with a Kunlangeta, to which he replied, "Somebody would have pushed him off the
ice when nobody else was looking."
In the West, the formal recognition
of psychopaths goes back at least as far as Theophrastus, a student of
Aristotle, whose study of the Unscrupulous Man defines the basic
characteristics of psychopathy. Much later this condition came to be referred
to as manie sans délire ("insanity without delirium"), a term that by
the 1830s evolved into moral insanity, the key symptom of which is a "defective
conscience." By 1900 the label was changed to psychopathic personality, but it
wasn't until 1941 that psychiatrist Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley of the Medical
College of Georgia systematically defined the condition.
A psychopath
is a person without a conscience who feels no empathy, remorse or guilt and who
lacks the ability to experience a wide range of human emotions. The
psychopath's ability to feel emotion is confined to a narrow range of primitive
proto-emotions such as anger, frustration and rage. Psychopaths will tend to be
pathological liars and expert manipulators victimizing family, friends and
strangers. Often psychopaths are charming, charismatic, popular and admired.
Psychopaths are not mentally ill nor delusional. They are more coldly rational
and intelligent than non-psychopaths as they lack the emotions that befuddle
normal people.
Psychopaths are likely to be promiscuous and to abandon
partners without remorse. Psychopaths are prone to entitlement, grandiosity and
find nothing wrong with themselves. Psychopaths typically blame others for the
consequences of their actions and engage in moral reasoning that is glib and
superficial if not absurd. Psychopaths usually have little fear of consequences
and enjoy risk as they need novelty, stimulation and living on the edge to
compensate for their emotional vacuity. Although psychopaths are notoriously
unempathetic, they are also superb emotional manipulators able to accurately
read other people and gauge their weak points with fine precision.
Non-psychopaths are often inaccurate in their reading of others because of
their own conflicting complex inner emotional lives. With emotions swirling
within it is easy to project feelings and expectations onto others.
Non-psychopaths tend to assume that all humans have a similar range of emotions
but psychopaths do not.
Psychopaths are able to recognize individual
needs and vulnerabilities much more clearly as there is no emotional confusion
within. With a focused, predator consciousness they can easily identify
characteristics that are not entirely survival driven stark relief. Even though
all normal humans are complex, it does not take complex insight to manipulate
us as even complex people have typical ego related vulnerabilities and
therefore can be manipulated by flattery, sexual attention, greed, intimidation
and fear.
Psychopaths lie with ease as they have no anxiety about
lying. Psychopaths are often extremely convincing and are even able to pass
polygraph tests with ease as polygraph tests register physiological stress
responses to the anxiety of lying. As psychopaths have no anxiety about lying,
the lies register no different than their baseline. Psychopaths that tend
toward megalomania lie to themselves allowing a complex paralogical belief
system to take form which gives them talents, powers and abilities beyond those
of average mortals.
Empaths frequently report that in the presence of a
psychopath the air seems to crackle with electricity as their hearts began
racing and they move to the edge of their chair ready to flee or fight. It is
likely that this is an ancient intraspecies predator-response system in which
the empath recognizes the psychopath as a Soulless One.
Some claim
psychopathology isn't a "cognitive disorder" at all, but is more accurately
considered an adaptive, evolutionary trait. In societies where most people are
law-abiding and inhibited by a conscience, a finely tuned, camouflaged predator
can find an adaptive niche as a parasite or vampire sucking the blood of unwary
individuals.
It is thought their successful evolutionary adaptation
hinges on the fact that psychopaths become sexually active earlier and remain
more promiscuous than their non-psychopath counterparts. The frequency of their
sexual transactions, their uninhibited use of coercion and exploitation, their
tendency to freely abandon partners and quickly take up with new ones allows
them considerably better than average advantage of passing along their genes.
A culture with psychopathic tendencies can cause people who might
otherwise be restrained or even moral to act like psychopaths. About ten
percent of the population is in a grey zone where they are not full blown
psychopaths but have enough psychopathic aspects to be of concern to society.
The stress and culture of combat creates psychopaths - "temporary insanity". As
veterans, many soldiers that embraced psychopathic action are tormented by
profound feelings of guilt and remorse. Some male subcultures have a
psychopathic attitude toward women such that it is considered virtuous and
manly to ruthlessly exploit women without remorse. Corporations, government
institutions, street and motorcycle gangs, organized international crime
families and syndicates, all tend to have psychopathic cultures. The person who
is most ruthless, cool under fire, and skilled in lying and manipulation will
likely be deferred to or made the leader of the criminal enterprise.
Emotionally vacuous psychopaths, motivated entirely by self-interest,
are powerfully drawn toward risk taking in order to feel anything. Psychopaths
seldom consider consequences so harsher penalties may not be much of a
deterrent for psychopaths and might actually contribute to the adrenaline rush
they often crave when they take risks.
Psychopaths are able to take
advantage of many "normal" people when their cognition is highly fragmented and
emotion repressed by what psychologists call psychic entropy -- anxious tape
loops, distracted thoughts, dreams and fantasies crowding conscious attentional
space.
When a person of single-minded focus and confidence appears it
is analogous to placing a powerful magnet below a sheet of paper on which there
is a scattering of iron filings. The magnet immediately organizes the scattered
filings into a coherent pattern that reflects its magnetic field. The scattered
personality feels an immense relief to be structured in this way from the
outside and craves further contact and submission to the magnetic personality
that can produce this effect, relieving them of their default state of psychic
entropy.
Ambition is a tricky devil.
Envy and
greed is the result of too much ambition.
Sloth is the result of too little
ambition.
See Frances Bacon
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Confucious
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