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We cannot live the GOLDEN RULE if we see life from the competitive paradigm. We don’t have to live each day competing with our friends, our spouse, our co-workers, and our neighbours. “Who is wining in our relationships?” is a naughty question. If both people aren’t winning, I believe both are losing.
Most result you want depends on the cooperation between you and another. It’s better to see life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena. Most people tend to think in terms of dichotomies: strong or weak, inferiority or superiority, black or white, win or lose. But that kind of thinking is fundamentally flawed. It’s based on power and position rather than on PRINCIPLE.
To live the GOLDEN RULE, we must go on the model that there is plenty for everybody, that one person’s success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others. The believe in the third alternative: It’s not your way or my way; it’s a better way, a higher way.
The need for each other cannot be over emphasized, little wonder Mother Teresa mused, “You can do what I can’t do, I can do what you can’t do, and together we can do great things.” If we must compete, it should be with our old self, with the question, how do I get better than I was yesterday? If you are not getting better you are getting worse.