The 3 Pieces of Competition that Guarantee Success

On how to use competition to achieve better results.

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As longtime readers of this newsletter must know, I used to do competitive programming back in my university days. I still do, to test my problem-solving skills once in a while. The hard training and the long hours I put in allowed me to fly to Europe to compete against the best programmers of my generation.

Competition is something that I have always carried with me, and it has driven a lot of progress and satisfaction in my life. Because of competition, I have achieved difficult goals and met wonderful people.

But competition can be tricky to handle. Competition is a double-edged sword that can turn against you at any time. I have written about it here, where

Alejandro Piad Morffis

and I share the pros and cons of fostering a competitive mindset in Computer Science students.

Today, I want to focus on the benefits of competition and the key aspects we must consider …