Passion and Competition - The Drive to Succeed

Passion and Competition - The Drive to Succeed

By Kevin Hogan
The best-selling author of The Psychology of Persuasion

Passion and Competition
Sometimes passion comes from competition. Humans are by nature competitive. We compete in different ways.

We compete physically, intellectually, with force, etc. We compete with ourselves. Let's look at competition and how it relates to and helps us understand passion.

Passion and Your Genes
Your genes are preprogrammed to try and keep you alive. They are preprogrammed to replicate.

Those two things tell you much of what you need to know about the core of human behavior.
Survive and replicate. Almost everyone has a passion to survive and participate in acts of replication...so to speak. (Those who don't take themselves out of the gene pool quite quickly, as well as their potential future progeny.)

Passion.

Quick, think of the word, passion. What immediately comes to mind? First thing that comes to my mind is *sex,* thank god....but there are other things... like what?