There is a lot of talk about competition competition competition. We wouldn't be where we are today without it... Survival of the fittest etc etc.

But that is to forget the other side of the coin that makes us what we are: cooperation.

Two opposing principles in tension

And peoples need to work out their own balance.

I sometimes think it is much harder for more cooperatively inclined people to fit in in the world than it is for the more competitively inclined people.

Bit like how it is easier for the people who are making headway on an individualistic rather than relational self.

But... Its late (or early) and I'm raving...