One grounded internal skill you can practice this week.
Have you ever been excited about an idea until you discovered someone else was already doing something similar?
Maybe they were further along than you or maybe their work was getting attention.
And suddenly, you started wondering whether your idea was worth pursuing.
They’re already doing it. What’s the point?
It’s easy to let that thought influence what we do next.
We might abandon an idea, rush to catch up, or start focusing on how to do something better than someone else, but what if we approached the situation differently?
In Sunday’s article, Someone Else’s Success Doesn’t Mean There’s Less for You, we explored how competitive thinking can make another person’s progress feel like a limitation on our own possibilities.
This week, we’re going to practice shifting our attention from what someone else has accomplished to what we might be able to create.
Competitive thinking asks how we can get ahead of someone else.
Creative thinking asks what we can add that wasn’t there before.
We can practice making that shift with three steps: NOTICE → QUESTION → CREATE
What This Skill Is: Shift From Competition to Creativity
Notice → Question → Create
Here’s how to practice it.
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