i heard someone say today "i try to better things 'cause i'm scared of the growing competetion around me". i poked around for the rest of the day, to find a lot of people agreeing to this panacea. is it the fear of competetion in the workplace, in art or even at home, that makes people want to better their acts? whatever happened to the rather rundown principle of trying to do better things to to satisfy something within?

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