There is always a bigger fish

No matter how good we are or have become at something there is always someone who it’s just better at it.Seeing at this from a negative view will make us feel with no motivation, but it means that we can always become more and that we know from whom we can learn.

The competition in any field must be the person in the mirror, by competing with someone else we put on chains that will impel us to fly higher.Competing against a 8/10 will make you fly to 9/10. But if you compete with the mirror you don’t put chains and you can be the 20/10 that you were supposed to be.”Your max potential.”No matter how good we are or have become at something there will always be someone better that we can learn from, just like we are better than that exact person in other areas.

Imagine the hologram of your best self next to you and compete with him. Tom Platz is an American retired professional bodybuilder and I really like his philosophy about this, in one of his videos he said, “I wasn’t blessed with great genetics, I wasn’t 6’5, but I wasn’t even competing with anyone else I was trying to beat that guy Tom Platz every day,I had challenged Tom Platz,whatever he did I could do better.”

It’s not like we can’t inspire from others, its knowing the difference between Imitation and Emulation.Imitation is copying, is doing the exact same as someone or something else,Emulation is trying to be similar to someone or something but always being you first, giving “that” your special touch and that special touch is what makes it unique,different.

The basketball star Kobe Bryan had no problem admitting that his moves were stolen from watching his favorite players, but he couldn’t “imitate” them perfectly because of his body, his way of playing, in other words because of his uniqueness,so he gave them his own touch.

“Srtar copying what you love.Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.”

~Yohji Yamamoto

That’s why it is so important to surround and learn from the right people, you are only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with, its like if we were a smoothie and the ingredients we add in the blender is what we choose to let in our life.

Michael Jordan said that Kobe stole his “moves,” but in this video Kobe says,”Im a student of the game, you know, so I know the history; I know where Michael’s moves came from, I know they came from David Thompson. I know they came from Dr. J. I know they came from, in particular, Jerry West. So Michael didn’t invent the wheel. He stole a lot of moves from a lot of great players. I just so happened to steal some moves from him, and I just probably stole them better than anybody else has. You have to learn from the greats that came before you, that’s how it should be done.”

“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism .”

~William Ralph Inge

So the formula will be: Emulate the big fish but don’t imitate their uniqueness because yours could be better.Never start a goal with the thought of being better than someone because you will be limiting your flight before you even departed.

Make it a great day or not,the choice is yours.🌄

With enthusiasm and joy….Danny:)🏵️