The Fear of the Competition !

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Competition is great. It creates a better product. It improves it, makes it exceptional, and it could even eliminate the older one and consumers may even forget about it, or it may even be deleted from the history to make people buy only what's recently produced ! That's how the competition as a cruel joke may erase even a big company from the market for years or forever !

I can give you a great example of what I'm talking about. Check the story of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. How Edison by creating those bulbs worked hard to spread the idea of electrical system that should be spread even if that may cause harm to people. In the end, Westinghouse won because the alternating current is safer for people. He even worked with Nikola Tesla because Edison was so disrespectful when Tesla tried to help. That's how Westinghouse took over the market in this field, by using the safety of people as a pressure lever to eliminate the opponent.

By the way, you can watch that in a great movie called The Current War with great actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon and others. Check the trailer if you're interested :

And there are so many other examples of how the competition helped so many people to keep improving and businesses to grow. But in this post, I would like to talk about the fear created by powerful players to eliminate the potential competitors. Usually when they see someone doing well, they realize that this participant (in the system they are leading in) may create something huge, much better than they are able to create. That member could change the whole game and the system will work against big players. Which is not profitable for them, of course.

That's why if they see someone trying to change the system for the best for regular citizens like him/her, such person will be attacked before the revolutionary idea spreads. The idea could become popular in such manner where the most players are aware of it, so new big players will be created, and it will be hard for old players to stand among them, unless they improve their way of doing things themselves. Maybe that's not the fear of competition in fact, but the fear of the change they have to make. So, they just resist to not let things go that way. They are also people and their greed may make them have a wrong picture. So, they may not even do that on purpose, but that's just a defensive reaction from them.

Look at those dandelions. They have different colors in the picture. You know that the white one is what may exist in nature. But when you look at many of them on the background of grass, you may think that the colorful ones also exist. The same about big players when they do things to protect themselves and their business. They may do things you don't like, but that's only business, nothing personal. That's what you have to know to not start a war with them.

You may not have sources to fight them at the moment, but you have your vision about how things should be done for the best for everyone. So, you may push those with more resource than you to understand the whole picture, which may cause powerful enough like-minded thinkers to stand with you to prove to big players you're right about the principle you were fighting for. Only with the evidence, you can draw a clear picture of what you see !

So, if you want to keep standing on the scene, never think that only open fight can help you win. If you don't rush to see the results, you may have in the end much better ones, even if it takes you a very long time. There is a great quote, ''Rome wasn't built in one day.'' That's what you should always remember !

In the end, the life is a combination of wins and losses. Sometimes you have to lose in order to win !