'Children playing naturally, without adult supervision or intervention, rarely play competitively.'
and can be ruined by competition. Competition destroys the fun, at least for the one who is consistently losing, and when it’s not fun it’s no longer play. The most fundamental freedom in play is freedom to quit , and that is a force that leads players to cooperate. If you want to continue playing, you must keep your playmates happy. Beating them in any sort of overt manner, especially if you do it repeatedly, does not keep them happy.
I also remember long games of tennis in which the goal was not to win but to keep the ball going back and forth over the net as many times as possible without a miss. This required considerable skill. The better player had to hit it in a way that somewhat challenged the other but would be possible for the other to retrieve.
rivalry is a topic beyond my essay here. Generally, however, children cooperate when adults are not in charge.Sadly, when we adults take charge of children’s activities, as we do much too often in today’s world, we turn the activities into competitions. We do this regularly with recreational activities, like baseball or tennis .
In my experience, the truly successful people in life—the people who are happy in their own skin, who enjoy theirand family, who are valued as friends and colleagues, who contribute more to the world than they take—are people far more oriented toward cooperation than competition. Nobody truly succeeds alone. If we succeed, we do so because others help us along the way, and they help us because they like us, and they like us because we like them and aren't trying to beat them.
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