on competing constructively - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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rivalry can be healthy, actually

Jean Jacoby, Olympic artist, 1891-1936 My competitiveness used to scare me. I didn’t face it for a while, because I didn’t want to believe it could make me do things I wouldn’t typically do. Eventually I had no choice but to acknowledge it was shaping my life regardless of whether I wanted to “let it” do so or not. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” —Carl Jung What we fail to confront will continue to control us. This is especially true of our shadow qualities: the parts of ourselves we don’t like, that we find ugly—misaligned…

on competing constructively - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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