Reed Maltbie’s thoughts on competition

What are your thoughts around— since you are a coach in competition, and like, what are your thoughts around that? Competition was meant for human performance, for personal individual excellence. And the problem is, is we have taken what was these endeavors towards individual excellence, and we morphed it into a $15 billion industry, the youth sports industry, maybe more than $15 now. This machine that now it is about win at all costs. The root of competition is competere, to strive together. That's the Latin root for it. So originally competition meant that we would work together to be our very best. Now, if you and I are on the same team, we're gonna work together to win. If you and I are on opposite teams, you're not my enemy, you're my ally in my own self-improvement. If I can't beat you today, my goal is, is that you've shown me a way to beat you next time or that you've made me better. The whole iron sharpens iron thing. So from its root term, competition is a healthy thing to have from a workplace point of view, from an Olympics point of view, from even in the classroom. We need