A concept I enjoyed from this chapter was competition VS cooperation. Competition is something we are used to because many events consist of it such as sports, beauty, fashion, intelligence and much more. We are constantly competing with others over something and some of that competition is fun but most of it can turn ugly. On the other hand, we do not usually see cooperation because it is the idea of helping each other instead of going head to head.
Competition is huge in the media because we always cheer for our sports team to beat the other. This is something the whole world does so not that big of a deal. It is when the competition gets out of hand and people do not know how to handle it, that it gets dangerous.
Cooperation should be made more public because instead of always trying to be the best or the first, we can help each other and achieve whatever the goal is.
As for myself, I usually find myself in football competitions. I am a Niner Faithful so I will always cheer for my team, but at times the competition with friends who root for other teams can become uneasy. I think that we should all respect each other’s teams and of course we will root for our team, but we should cooperate not to let it get out of hand and make a simple fun sports game turn into an ugly fight and even the end of a friendship.
But isn't competition so entertaining? And that's really what the problem is. The world is so overstimulated that we love entertaining things and there is always that strive for the next best thing. People flock towards anything with competition because there is a winner and a loser and usually a good show involved. While competition is not going anywhere anytime soon there is something behind the fact that sometime cooperation is just the way to go. There more often than not is a place for it and it is something that is so hard for people to do.
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