Wisdom to Live by in This Competitive World of Competition

• Never check on what your competitors are doing. In this competitive world of competition, that is a distraction, a way of causing you to lose a precious moment of striving. Assume your competition is doing infinity, and you will have to do infinity times infinity to the power of infinity.

• Never be a leader. In this competitive world of competition, it makes no sense to be a leader. Leaders have followers, some of whom will want to overtake you.

• Don't be successful. In this competitive world of competition, merely contemplating that you might actually be a success is akin to resting on your laurels. The competition is too intense to be doing that for even an instant.

• Be still. In this competitive world of competition, movement only draws attention to yourself. You don't want your competition to know you even exist or even that you are competing.

• Be stupid. In this competitive world of competition, it makes no sense to employ common sense. Common sense places limits. And even if it isn't as common as it should be, there are still too many using it for anyone to get a real competitive edge from it. The real strivers, the leading competitors are always counter-intuitive. And there is nothing more counter-intuitive than doing things in an idiotic way.

• Don't have competitors. You must strive to be in a class by yourself.

• Strive not be a manager. Managers are merely the head sheep. In this competitive world of competition you don't want to be any sort of sheep.

• Walk into an office and tell them you have an appointment ten years from now. They'll will be very impressed with your promptness. In this competitive world of competition, you can never be too prompt.

• Fail. Success, as just stated, has a way of distracting you from your ultimate goals.

• Don't plan. In this competitive world of competition, those who are planning are merely delaying the moment when they start to compete. It's akin to freezing at the starting block when the gun sounds.

• Don't double-check your work. In this competitive world of competition, everyone must move forward and never be looking back. Double-checking is back-tracking.

• Don't dress well. In fact, don't wear clothes. There is a chance that clothing can be the uniform of success. Recall, that in this competitive world of competition, there is no time to be successful. Success merely courts failure.

• Don't have goals. Goals are merely ways of limiting oneself. You must be beyond having goals. You must be striving to achieve infinity times infinity to the power of infinity.

• Don't practice people skills. In fact, try not to have any. In this competitive world of competition, everyone is a rival. No point in being nice to them.

• Don't focus. In this competitive world of competition, focusing can cause you to miss the necessary distractions. You must be open to what is necessary.

• Don't play to your strengths. In this competitive world of competition, your strengths are not enough, you must have strengths that you don't have.

• Sleep late. In this competitive world of competition, you can't be losing the edge that sleep gives you.

• Try not to be happy. Happiness is an offshoot of success which as previously stated is an unnecessary distraction in this competitive world of competition.

• Procrastinate. This competitive world of competition is causing a lot of the competition to start when they aren't ready. That is why, it is best to bide your time.

• Shirk your duties. In this competitive world of competition, the duties imposed on you by others are in fact distractions placed on your by rivals trying to put your off your game.

• Kill yourself. In this competitive world of competition, one should never be pleased with oneself. And what better way to show how unattainable your standards of competition are than by killing yourself?

• Go to extremes. In this competitive world of competition, it makes no sense to be conventional. Strive to be so abnormal that you end up, conversely, being the normal standard that others strive to be.