Your Relationship With Your Competition
Obviously it's important to have good relationships with your teammates, but not many people think about the importance of relationships between competitors. Your relationship with your opponents can greatly affect your mental health and performance. There are some extremely competitive athletes who actually hate their competition. They purposely try to become enemies with their competition. This may help them with motivation at times, but overall, it is not a good way to live. With this "me against the world" attitude, you isolate yourself, grow bitter, and miss out on fulfilling friendships. This not only hurts your social skills and mental health, but it can also hurt your performance in game. If you make competition too personal, and play with too much anger towards your opponents, your performance can worsen. You may not be able to control your emotions, which can lead to choking and bad decision making. To prevent this, you need to build better relationships wit