Outthinking the Competition

Ilexa Yardley
The Circular Theory
2 min readJun 2, 2018

Getting the big picture. First.

Big picture. Competition. (Photo by Nadine Shaabana)

You can’t achieve anything worthwhile unless you understand the competition. Nature, in order to survive, wants you to underestimate, and, therefore, overestimate, the competition. You can overcome this by putting the competition into perspective.

First of all, it looks like this:

Competition.

This proves competition and cooperation are linked. You can expect each exactly half-the-time. Meaning, you are your most important (only) competitor.

Understand your own behavior and this allows you to understand the competitor’s behavior. As illustrated above (nothing more, or less).

If you don’t understand the ‘above,’ you better not take on the competition. He-she-they will ‘eat your lunch.’ At least, and at most, half-the-time.

Once you figure out half-the-time is all-the-time (because a simple circle is conserved) you have out-thought the competition. If they have done the same (figured out the diagram above), you will be in competition forever.

You have to ask yourself. Do you want this?

The diagram answers this (half-the-time ‘yes;’ half-the-time ‘no’).

Now you have, definitely, out-thought the competition.

Conservation of the circle is the core dynamic in nature.

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