Competition is the best way?

Some people belive that competition is the best way to attain their full potential. Other people say that cooperation with others is more important in a persons eventual success. Which opinion is better?

While it may be true that cooperating with other people is crucial to obtain success, in my opinion, it is the best way to compete with each other in order to succeed. There are two reasons for this: motivation and human nature of selfishness.

The first reason why I support competition to obtain individual success is that competing each other makes people strongly motivate. In other wards, it encourage people to make a lot of efforts to obtain something that is difficult to get when they do not work hard. For instance, a exam that are required to enter universities is complete competition. This is why people who want to enter a high level university have to make tremendous efforts, and people who have high competence and are finally successful usually come from famous universities. In addition, cooperate with others make people feel that they do not have to work hard and make efforts. This is because people come to depend on each other, and even if some people become lazy, it did not lead to a significant problem.

The second reason why I agree with the idea that it is the best way to compete in order to drive a full potential from people is that people are naturally selfishness. Some people may say that human is one of the animals cooperating with each other to accomplish something difficult or needed. However, generally speaking, because human is selfish creature and always purse their own benefit, cooperation sometimes does not work. For example, as history prove, although socialism which prefer cooperation to competition did not work in the Soviet Union, capitalism which is based on competition archived a lot of success and prosperity. Because, in the system of competition people have to purse their own interests and make significant efforts, it eventually lead to not only the individual success, but also social prosperity.

For these reasons, to derive full potential from all people, competition is the best way. In the environment based mainly on competition, its competition make people work harder motivate them, and even give that society a lot of benefits.