05:49 min
CLEAR ALL
I’m joined by speaker, international executive and five-time author Margaret Heffernan.
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How competitions can lead you to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
Lack of physical activity has been shown to increase the risk of chronic illness and mortality. Yet, a large part of the American population fails to meet the government’s recommendations for physical activity. According to a new study, competition might be the key to getting us to workout more.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.