you are in competition and i am too --- now, is there a way out -- atleast temporarily, temporarily -- yes, i think so.. its called self-forgetfulness and making it a habit..

dw said

i heard in a youtube shorts

that he is not in competition with anybody else

but only himself, being better than yesterday,

being the best version of himself.

LOOOOk the idea is not to be in competition with others

neither with yourself

because there is no sense of YOU

without implicitly being OTHERS

If there are no OTHERS

there wouldn't be a social sense of a YOU

so if you are in competition with yourself,

then that implicitly implies the presence of OTHERS

The whole idea is to first realize that we are in competition.

Then, you can strive for not to be competition with anybody, not even yourself, for some time.

That is called relaxing.

That is called meditation.

That is called letting go.

That is called dissolving your sense of self.