Competition is nothing, but looking for some external factor to drive you, People who has strong self will not depend on competition to raise. Generally, people who practice competition has reached the top of the world, stayed as rich, but also carried enormous amount of guilt and finally, some of them taken refuge in Donating their earning to the charities.
The competition lover, find their life miserable, once they became old. They all experienced a kind of big hole inside of them coz their nature of movement of life was depended on external factor. Initially, the competition, which has given special kind of energy to reach their goal and the same has made them to feel weak and empty. If you create an illusion of competition in every walk of life, then the net result will be disappointment. So instead of depending on external factor, Better to develop our self in small phases.
To develop Self, we can use competition in the beginning and once the 'Flow' is created then we can switch over to strengthening the SELF.