Welcome to Darin Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

So I want to talk about the block that John Wooden placed right at the very top of his

pyramid of success, something I love and I agree should be right at the top.

And it is competitive greatness.

Here's why, nothing captivates the human attention and engagement, like competition.

A good competition gives you a reason to get fired up and it calls upon you to bring

your best.

A strong competitor pushes you to reach deep and use your skills, talents and abilities

to their fullest, having to compete challenges your character and resolve.

We'll lead you to push harder, go further and hang on longer than you might have otherwise.

It activates all sorts of human faculties, focus, reward, incentive, real-time evidence

of progress, recognition, etc.

All these pump the mojo drug right into your system.

Now, is competition stressful?

Yes!

As John said, competitive greatness is the enjoyment of a difficult challenge.

Here's the thing about stress that people have all wrong.

Stress is good, stress is the stimulus for growth, for development and for progress.

Great performers welcome stress, they want it, they thrive on it.

They know pressure occurs when meaningful accomplishment is possible.

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