Escape Competition Through Authenticity.
विद्या विवादाय धनं मदाय शक्तिः परेषां परिपीडनाय। खलस्य साधोर् विपरीतमेतद् ज्ञानाय दानाय च रक्षणाय॥ Good things should be imitated - lessons which our elders keep on giving. How good is this to follow in life is always debatable. Every individual is unique so how can one individual's good is the best for other individuals also. What if legendary Shri Bhagat Singh and national hero Shri Subhash Chandra Bose has blindly imitated Mahatma Gandhi ji. Hence, it's true that everyone's individuality and uniqueness are crucial to consider and respect. To be more precise, let's consider a situation if everyone around us is a great artist, so we want to be an artist. If everyone around us is a great businessperson, we would like to be a businessperson. If everybody around us is a social activist, then we want to be a social activist. That’s where our self-esteem will come from. But we have to be careful when we are getting caught up in status games. We end up competing over things ...