This is an excerpt from one of the chapters from my upcoming book that I am humbly in the process of writing with whatever limited knowledge I have.
This book principally entails the theory of emancipated management starting from the decision to start a business, setting up the
pillars, recruitment, training, operations, administration, finance, sales, marketing, business development and factually all the functions that run a business.
The underlying concept is how would the approach be, should the people involved, be enlightened and Realised and how solutions come in such an environment. It also briefly outlines the process, that one might follow to achieve the state of Realisation. This particular section here discusses competition.
Performances have a bar based on our present capabilities. Either we touch the bar or stay below it. In competition when we approach with a challenge, we focus on that bar which in a sense makes our potential finite. However, if we focus on learning from our competitors, we invariably keep on pushing that bar higher and higher. Learning is a great attribute. It also keeps the mind away from ego and conditions. A mind like that knows no limits.
Many a time, I have been asked about how to approach competition, handle competition, win in a competition. Well, there are innumerable schools, that have volumes of theories on this, but I have a different take on the subject.
Competition is the sphere where the talent is measured and awarded. The question is, does it always have to do with me or the competition as a whole. The whole point is that the competition is not a part of me, but I am a part of the competition. So it is about all the talents that are in question here and everything that I am being measured against.
According to me, the principal tool of competition does not lie in what I have done, but what I have not done yet. My competitors measure me on what I have already done but not what I have not done yet. I would look at the scenario in the same direction. Understanding what my competitors have done and if I have anything to learn from it. Learning brings me to par with them thus giving that edge because it is supplemented with that extra me.
Now I need to understand, what I have not done yet. Abilities can never be at saturation, otherwise the words innovation and strategy wouldn’t have existed. Now here is the big question. What if I am unable to strategise or innovate? That is scary. For an individual, who is not Realised, this may be a valid question, but for the Realised? Definitely not.
After Self Realisation, the Aortic Plexus evolves thus offering the unlimited storehouse of creativity and innovation. That is where that quality is manifested in human beings. A Realised person is detached from the competition but has the wisdom to comprehend what she or he is up against. That is the essence of Realisation. It is a unique act of benevolence in which the person comprehends the entire scenario, what she or he is up against and what she or he needs to do to stand out as a winner. The basic crux of all this is that a Realised person will always be standing on the platform of truth so the confidence to deliver and win comes from that. There is no guilt or ego involved in that entire process of winning.
Now, the question that immediately arises, is, who will be the winner in a competition of Realised people. The question in itself reveals an interesting aspect of a Realised environment. This environment is ideally not result-driven or position driven or competition driven. It is driven by joy. The joy is in exercising the Realisation within and not what it achieves. So in such an environment, everyone is the winner but if one needs to single out one, then the competition is the winner.
So in an environment involving Realised people, the environment is the winner. The environment may be business, a project, a profession, a competition, anything for that matter. So what is augmented is the environment because the people involved have only one direction to go in and that is in a positive direction.
