What it takes to be competitive

Whether you want to be competitive in sports, school, business, social circles or just against yourself, your advantage will seldom have to be measured in spectacularly, large increments. Most of the time, a hair or even a fraction thereof will suffice.

Even if it's an itsy-bitsy, tiny bit at a time, it also has to be consistent. You must stay alert, be permanently on the look-out for challenge and never forget to act on it. With these simple precepts in mind, competitiveness isn't an occasional activity, but a permanent state of mind...