Negatives Of Competition In Sports

One of the very first games I learned as a young child was Uno, the famous family card game. The game has a simple goal: be the first player to get rid of all the cards in your hand. My siblings and I played the game often as it was fun, easy, and quick. But as the youngest family member, I rarely won. As my sister shouted “Uno!”, announcing that she had one more card left, I would look down sadly at the ten cards I had yet to put down. My anger -- my competitive spirit -- rose every time one my siblings declared themselves the winner and me the loser. While the game contains elements of luck, it may be played strategically as well. As we continued to play, I was determined to win -- I taught myself how to play smarter and not rely purely on

Many people believe that competitive sports create selfish, self-centered, and bad attitudes, and lead athletes to make unwise choices in life. But the benefits of competition in sports are true when competition is taught in a good environment where it is viewed as having a positive influence.

Apart from sports, competition is also found easily in economics. Competition is vital in economics. From an economic perspective, competition exists because basically all resources on Earth are limited or scarce. Intellectual Takeout, which presents the case of competition, describes competition as what happens “when people or organizations reach for the same prize or goal at the same time.” The author further notes that while competition seems like a purely economic idea, it actually is only an inevitable result of the scarcity of resources.

But what is so great about competition in the economic world? For one, according to Frederic Bastiat, an economist, competition provides the “essential character of freedom, because it allow[s] individuals to make their own choices without coercion.” With thousands of businesses competing at the same time and selling the same product, consumers have a variety of choices and may freely choose which product suits them