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This is kind of an interesting line of questioning that I wanted to share with all of you. In a world where information is being distributed faster and cheaper (much of it being free), should you be worried that other people are getting "smarter" than you and thus you should speed up your efforts?

I think that learning is a really subjective thing, and to become more knowledgable is a very personal journey. But with that said, I like to use this idea of competition as a way to light a fire under my butt to keep moving forward and learn more, faster and better.

If anything, I would consider it motivational to think of other people learning and getting better. 

Further than that, more smart people is definitely a good thing for a person who wants to be smart in this world. The smarter other people are, the smarter you should become as well. The more time you spend with people who read, write, listen to audio books and podcasts, etc. the more you will learn and share with them. 

Learning is exponential. I've talked about that before. The more you learn, the more you can connect new learning to the learning that you have done previously. 

The same goes for "social learning". When you learn something and share it with someone, they are inclined to become smarter and learn stuff that you don't know and then they'll also be inclined to share that knowledge with you some day. 

Learning doesn't have to be a nasty sort of competition, but I think that if you consider it to be some sort of friendly competition with your peers, then you'll be better off for it. You'll be capable of getting smarter together. 

I also consider how this applies to things like the Steem ecosystem. If we all continue to get better and have a friendly competition with one another to keep improving our accounts, then we will raise the bar and everything will be better as a result!

If you're looking for another example of this, look no further than capitalistic competition in business. When you have 1 monopolized business, there's little improvement in terms of efficiency, pricing RnD, etc... 

But when you have 10 businesses competing for consumer dollars, then you have innovation, lower prices, efficiency, etc...

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Does competition make you more motivated?