[Eric Revelin]

While I think some competition is certainly healthy, I believe we often take it too far. We take something completely meaningless, like sports, and use it as a yardstick to determine personal worth. That's where a new way of seeing things could be very useful.

Another thing we tend to do is to despise our competition. That's something else that needs to change. For instance, I'm thoroughly unimpressed when politicians spend their time and their campaign funds merely lampooning their opponents instead of standing up and making their case for why they are qualified to lead us and why their plans are the best course of action we can take. Competition in politics is good. Attack politics is bad. It's one thing to point out corruption and incompetence. It's something else altogether to treat it like a war and try to destroy your opponent's career regardless of whether or not you've got anything to back your claims.