defeating others !!..Vs...enrich our own self...!!

I read somewhere an anecdote on frog which inside the water well. The frog defeated other frogs inside the well and felt that it was the most superior in this world. The frog didn't know that it was on fool's paradise. One day, due to heavy rain frog got a chance to come out of that well, than seeing others it realized that it was no where in position with other frogs outside the well.

Here there is another example. Once, an athletic in Olympic won gold medals for continuous three years. The interviewer asked him "how do you manage your success?" "Do you have any fear from other competitors?” Then he divulged “I always compete with myself and improve myself each time”.” I always try to break the records of my previous performance".

In this world, everyone is running after their own aspirations. They put their immense efforts to achieve that. It is likely to happen that we started doing competition with others and try to defeat others i.e. may be in work, may be in vague argument and lot of other things. If we succeed to defeat them, we feel for a moment that today I have achieved something. Actually, we just made ourselves slightly better than them. That may stop us to grow further like that frog in the well, mentioned in above anecdote.

So,rather competing with others, ameliorate our own self to the higher level each time. Compete with our own self.