Competition vs. Collaboration

Reaching our full potential

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

I’ll admit, I’ve never been a competitive person. Maybe it’s because I was always tiny for my age. I didn’t grow to my full height — 5'2" — until I was 17 years old, and my weight usually hovered around 89 lbs. Not exactly an athletic build.

Throughout K-12, I was humiliated in PE (gym, as we called it) class, as the teachers chose captains…