On being competitive
Oh, hi friends!
Are you a competitive person?
This can boil down in two ways: competition with others, and competition with yourself.
If you’re competitive with others, are you surrounded by people who push you to be better?
And if you’re competitive with yourself, how do you push yourself to be better?
I’ve found that a new environment can stoke new shades of competition.
So can a new project. A new friend.
Sometimes I feel strange admitting I’m not a very competitive person—like perhaps I should go faster when someone is nipping at my heels.
But then I consider my internal competitive drive…and that’s what really gets me to move.
So I guess the trick is to pinpoint what drives you. Maybe it’s comparison to others. Maybe it’s comparison to a former version of yourself—or a future version of yourself.
Find that—and hang on.
“Do more of what you can uniquely do, and less of what other people can do.’”
— Gloria Steinem
Q2 goal: Leaning in to this so much.
(h/t Adrienne Girard for the quote!)
“The most important question an actor can ask is, Why.”
I spent three days hanging at Lincoln Center for the ninth annual Women in the World Summit and witnessed so many incredible speakers and stories...here's what I covered:
Terry Crews, Joanna Coles, and Lauren Duca talked consent in the #MeToo era.
Julianna Marguiles previewed her new AMC series Dietland, about Hollywood’s beauty standards and fighting the patriarchy—and it’s a comedy!
Margaret Atwood’s on handmaid protests—and the next season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
She’s one brave woman: Sunitha Krishnan on the attack on her sanctuary that houses 600 victims of sexual trafficking in India.
Gleaned so much career and workplace advice from these four women who reinvented the rules to get to the top of their fields.
And finally, the amazing Viola Davis!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara