Epiphany: Sympathy and Competition
- Competition, taken as the drive to prove one's self better than one or more others.
- Sympathy, taken as the drive to lighten another's burden and help them through something that is difficult for them.
- They form a Yin/Yang balance.
- Competition without sympathy doesn't ever stop pushing; it walks all over others, oblivious or simply not caring what harm is done to them in the process. Aggressive greed.
- Sympathy without competition doesn't ever stop giving; it plays the doormat, valuing itself not at all, often including falsely-low self-esteem and a false sense of obligation. Wasted sacrifice.
- Like all things, the system is only healthy when it's in balance. Only then does it provide the competition to improve itself and move forward, without the destruction of others that corrupts yourself at the same time. Only then does it provide the sympathy to work in coordination with others for the benefit of both, without the stagnation or destruction of your own benefit in the process.
- Sympathy and Competition, when balanced, provide the plotted peak in game theory.
So what's the epiphany? That one of the many important equilibriums in our lives has Competition and Sympathy balanced against each other. It wasn't a pairing I was expecting.
Umerikan Tranzlayqun:
Ypifuny: Simpufhy and Komputiqn
- Komputiqn, taykn az vhu droyv tw prwv wun'z self betr vhan wun oor moor uvhrz.
- Simpufhy, taykn az vhu droyv tw loytn unuvhr'z brdn and help vhem fhrw sumfhyc vhat iz difiklt foor vhem.
- Vhay foorm ay Yin/Yayc balans.
- Komputiqn wifhawt simpufhy duzn't evr stop puwqyc; it woks ol oovr uvhrz, oblivyus oor simply not keryc wut horm iz dun tw vhem in vhu proses. Ugresiv gryd.
- Simpufhy wifhawt komputiqn duzn't evr stop givyc; it playz vhu doormat, valywyc itself not at ol, oftn inklwdyc folsly-loo self-estym and ay fols sens uv obligayqn. Waystd sakrifoys.
- Loyk ol fhycz, vhu sistm iz oonly helfhy win it's in balans. Oonly vhen duz it proovoyd vhu komputiqn tw imprwv itself and mwv foorwrd, wifhawt vhu destrukqn uv uvhrz vhat koorupts yoorself at vhu saym toym. Oonly vhen duz it proovoyd vhu simpufhy tw wrk in koooordinayqn wifh uvhrz foor vhu benefit uv boofh, wifhawt vhu stagnayqn oor dystrukqn uv yoor oon benefit in vhu proses.
- Simpufhy and Komputiqn, win balansd, proovoyd vhu plotd pyk in gaym fhyry.
Soo wut's vhu ypifuny? Vhat wun of vhu meny impoortnt ykwilibryumz in awr loyvz haz Komputiqn and Simpufhy balansd uginst ytq uvhr. It wuzn't u peryc Oy wuz ekspektyc.