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In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some valueit highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity.Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another;that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I havetaught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied (依赖) on how wellthey performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winningare often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit (追求) of success,the development, of many other human qualities ia sadlyforgotten. '
However,while sonic seem to be lost in die desire to succeed, others take an oppositeattitude. In a culture which values only die winner and pays no attention tothe ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal areyoungsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents orsociety. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail.They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By nottrying, they always have an excuse: "I may have lost, but it doesn'tmailer because I really didn't try. " What is not usually admitted bythemselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that wouldmean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this beliefis the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Bothare based on the mistaken belief that one's self-respect relies on how well oneperforms in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Onlyas this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve (缓解) can wediscover a new meaning in competition.

　　现代社会关于竞争，人们有着不同的观点。一些人高度认可它，认为它可以促进社会的进步和繁荣。另外一些人认为竞争是有害的。竞争让一个人与另外一个人相互对立，她导致人与人之间不和谐的人际关系。我告诉过很多学生，他们认为自己的价值体现在能不能擅长打网球或者擅长其他的事情。对他们而言，表现良好，赢得一个比赛是一个生与死的问题。在他们追求对于成功追求的过程中，人们性格方面的其他发展不幸滴被遗忘了。

然后，当一些人极度渴望获得成功的同时，另外一些人持有不同的态度。在一个只重视成功，对其他普通运动员置之不理的文化当中，他们强烈反对竞争。其中反映最强烈的是一些深受父辈或者社会竞争压力影响的年轻人。在教授这些人的时候，我经常发现他们失败的倾向。他们似乎没有尝试成功，反而追求失败。在没有尝试的过程中，他们或许有自己的借口：我或许已经失败了，但是没关系，因为我并没有尝试过。但是他们并没有承认的是，如果他们真正尝试但是失败了，那将意义非凡。这样的压力是他们价值观的衡量。很明显地，这个信念跟真正想要证明自己的竞争者的信念是一样的。双方都基于一个错误的观点，那就是一个人的自尊取决于在跟人的比较中自己是怎么表现的。双方都害怕不被重视。只有当这种基本的和有问题的恐惧开始缓解，我们才能够发现竞争中的新意义。

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