4 Competir e Cooperar ao mesmo tempo
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To compete or to cooperate?
There shouldn’t be a doubt about it.
The crisis is teaching us.
We should compete and cooperate simultaneously.
Competing and Cooperating Simultaneously
DO NOT WASTE THE CRISIS
Competing sometimes, while cooperating at other times.
We know how to do that.
This gap was definitely
what made our society weaker
to face systemic problems
like this virus.
Knowing how to compete is important
for us to assert ourselves as individuals,
with our identity.
Knowing how to cooperate is important
for us to be part of the world,
Thinking about our colleagues
and the group.
Simultaneously competing and cooperating
means thinking about you, your colleagues
and the group simultaneously.
It is natural to find it difficult
to understand the concept of "simultaneously",
because this is exactly the homework
this virus is assigning to us.
Let me explain:
Saying “simultaneously”
creates tension in your mind.
We are used to thinking about
“either this or that”,
not about “this AND that”.
"Either this OR that" means
you have two opposite poles
and by eliminating one,
the tension is over.
"This AND that" means you are not
eliminating anything. Tension arises.
This is a natural, good tension if you
you are competent in managing the “AND”.
Managing the “AND” involves the
tension of negotiation, inclusion, creation,
While managing the OR involves the
tension of exclusion, reduction, impoverishment.
The AND tension creates life.
Nature teaches us so.
There is no sex without tension.
A child is not born without the tension
of her mother’s belly and its stretched walls.
A blood pressure of 120/80 is good tension
it is your blood expanding
while the walls of your veins
want to contain the blood’s expansion.
The tension between two opposing forces
creates a third alternative that did not exist.
This is evolution, this is moving forward.
Simultaneously competing and
cooperating is a sign of maturity,
it creates peace, generates a
positive tension of negotiation.
Competing without cooperating is immature.
It creates war and the negative
tension of destruction.
Carl Jung studied this topic
as "tertium non datur".
In Latin, it means
"third party not considered”
He says that maturity is only possible
when a person admits a third option is possible,
which drives the positive tension of negotiation.
He says that a positive tension builds
character and promotes evolution.
In conclusion: Without tension,
there is no evolution.
When raising a youth,
tell them to compete and
cooperate simultaneously.
Tell them:
Think about yourself, your
colleagues and the group simultaneously.
This is a creative challenge.
Something new will come out of it,
something that did not exist.
Then comes the future.
We need to learn not to run away
from tension and learn how to manage it.
To negotiate.
It is not easy, but that is
the better future we want to have.
Let’s do it!
May the positive tension of evolution come!
Let’s do it together.
See you next time!