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Jivesauce
Nov 22, 2007

Emron posted:

This is going to sound spoiled which is not my intent, but the reality of it is that you kind of enjoy winning less. You go from being excited that you won to being anxious about losing.

I could understand this rubbing people the wrong way but I think it makes a lot of sense. I don't know if everyone's mind works this way, but in the very few things I've ever been good at competitively once I started having success it very quickly went from taking joy in succeeding to being terrified of failing to meet people's expectations and super hard on myself if I did anything other than win outright. And even if I won I didn't enjoy it, it was just what was expected.

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