imagine yourself as a small toddler
think about how carefree you were and
how worried for you were there was
barely any competition in anything then
by the age of about nine or ten things
became more and more competitive around
them parents start to scream at their
kids from the sidelines the whole game
and talk about how they have the kindest
kid or the smartest one with the best
grades parents are even competitive
about you when you’re young it is seen
most intensely in sports on a scale of
here to here how competitive are you
okay as life goes on
the competition increases and serves the
stress show thirteen-year-old even be up
here on stage talking about this now
that stress over 44 million US
adolescents between 6 and 18 years of
age participate in the youth sports
every year since I was 5 or 6 I have
been playing in Reece ports back then it
wasn’t all that competitive however now
it’s much different as competition
increases so does the stress but how
does competition affect your character
personality and general well-being both
pro and con
according to LIVESTRONG and Huffington
Post articles when one plays more
competitive sports free time is lost yet
the more time spent playing sports the
more active and healthier one becomes
and when spent when one spends more time
playing on a sports team they make more
friends however they don’t have as much
time to spend with their other friends
also competitive sports can cause injury
which can affect an athlete’s ability
later on to be active
pluggin competitively can cause one to
always put forth their best effort to
get through stress and frustration and
to always bring their a-game as part of
my TEDx experience I created a survey to
see how my peers felt about competition
I asked my friends on snapchat to take
the survey through my Instagram bio of
the 33 respondents 86.7% said that
competition is good for you well when we
13.3% said that it hurts you this shows
how most people think that competition
is better but may not see the negative
aspects I even surveyed or I even spoke
to a sports psychiatrist dr. John E
Makery from Ridgewood New Jersey
I assume how he felt about competition
he said competition is good as long as
it’s healthy competition or competition
that helps you succeed however does
healthy competition it really exists or
is it just a term thrown around to
justify the high levels of competition I
believe it does exist because there are
many different levels of competition
where can help or hurt you I chose a
psychiatrist from nearby because they
would know how competitive the area is I
can tell summit is very competitive
because they have many very good teams
this shows how dr. Makery knows how
competitive the area is these may be the
levels of competition where it becomes
unhealthy unhealthy competition is right
near by and at home it can really hurt
you when it’s that way although they can
be beneficial competitive sports can
cause injury these injuries can be very
major and long-term for example if an
athlete like a football player tears
their ACL when they’re 13 they could
have bad knees when they’re 30 this is
just one of the risk factors of playing
competitive sports when one is young but
competition isn’t only in sports
it isn’t other aspects of life – it can
helping someone later on you probably
see competition every day competition is
seen in business – there are different
pros and cons for example and
this when they want to sell more of a
product they do it quickly so their hire
more workers which helps the economy
grow but when they want to do it quickly
the product could be very bad quality
plus if companies want to make more
money than other companies they may
skyrocket prices these are just some
examples of the pros and cons in
business these are similar because they
show that you have the drive to do
better but can crack under the pressure
in life there will be competition in
almost everything you do however it it
always needs to be healthy competition
for you to succeed and grow as a person
after I’m done I want you to turn to the
person sitting next to you and tell them
one aspect of your life that you have
competition in and if you think it’s
healthy or not and if it isn’t healthy
tell them how you can make it healthy so
you can grow as a person
thank you
[Applause]
think about how carefree you were and
how worried for you were there was
barely any competition in anything then
by the age of about nine or ten things
became more and more competitive around
them parents start to scream at their
kids from the sidelines the whole game
and talk about how they have the kindest
kid or the smartest one with the best
grades parents are even competitive
about you when you’re young it is seen
most intensely in sports on a scale of
here to here how competitive are you
okay as life goes on
the competition increases and serves the
stress show thirteen-year-old even be up
here on stage talking about this now
that stress over 44 million US
adolescents between 6 and 18 years of
age participate in the youth sports
every year since I was 5 or 6 I have
been playing in Reece ports back then it
wasn’t all that competitive however now
it’s much different as competition
increases so does the stress but how
does competition affect your character
personality and general well-being both
pro and con
according to LIVESTRONG and Huffington
Post articles when one plays more
competitive sports free time is lost yet
the more time spent playing sports the
more active and healthier one becomes
and when spent when one spends more time
playing on a sports team they make more
friends however they don’t have as much
time to spend with their other friends
also competitive sports can cause injury
which can affect an athlete’s ability
later on to be active
pluggin competitively can cause one to
always put forth their best effort to
get through stress and frustration and
to always bring their a-game as part of
my TEDx experience I created a survey to
see how my peers felt about competition
I asked my friends on snapchat to take
the survey through my Instagram bio of
the 33 respondents 86.7% said that
competition is good for you well when we
13.3% said that it hurts you this shows
how most people think that competition
is better but may not see the negative
aspects I even surveyed or I even spoke
to a sports psychiatrist dr. John E
Makery from Ridgewood New Jersey
I assume how he felt about competition
he said competition is good as long as
it’s healthy competition or competition
that helps you succeed however does
healthy competition it really exists or
is it just a term thrown around to
justify the high levels of competition I
believe it does exist because there are
many different levels of competition
where can help or hurt you I chose a
psychiatrist from nearby because they
would know how competitive the area is I
can tell summit is very competitive
because they have many very good teams
this shows how dr. Makery knows how
competitive the area is these may be the
levels of competition where it becomes
unhealthy unhealthy competition is right
near by and at home it can really hurt
you when it’s that way although they can
be beneficial competitive sports can
cause injury these injuries can be very
major and long-term for example if an
athlete like a football player tears
their ACL when they’re 13 they could
have bad knees when they’re 30 this is
just one of the risk factors of playing
competitive sports when one is young but
competition isn’t only in sports
it isn’t other aspects of life – it can
helping someone later on you probably
see competition every day competition is
seen in business – there are different
pros and cons for example and
this when they want to sell more of a
product they do it quickly so their hire
more workers which helps the economy
grow but when they want to do it quickly
the product could be very bad quality
plus if companies want to make more
money than other companies they may
skyrocket prices these are just some
examples of the pros and cons in
business these are similar because they
show that you have the drive to do
better but can crack under the pressure
in life there will be competition in
almost everything you do however it it
always needs to be healthy competition
for you to succeed and grow as a person
after I’m done I want you to turn to the
person sitting next to you and tell them
one aspect of your life that you have
competition in and if you think it’s
healthy or not and if it isn’t healthy
tell them how you can make it healthy so
you can grow as a person
thank you
[Applause]
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