Dr. Kentaro Fujita

I do also think that it should get easier over time.

Because as you said, we have these attractor states in our mind.

And the first time we try to pull these thoughts together, it's herding sheep.

So you're trying to get all these ideas and these motivations and these thoughts and these biological systems, motivational systems, cognitive systems all lined up.

The first time you do that, that might take more work, but the more you do it, we know the mind likes to practice and be in the same places, I think more over time it should become faster and faster.

So this idea of warming up, which I really like, that you mentioned before, the warm-up might get easier and easier and easier the more I do it.

I think what you're saying is really interesting.

And I too have heard a lot of these stories and I always thought they were very interesting.

I personally don't know of any direct work looking at competitiveness and self-control.

The closest work that I can think of in my sphere, and there might be other research on competitiveness outside of the work that I typically read, mostly has to do with achievement motivation, right?

So achievement motivation is a lot like competitiveness in this.

I think competitiveness actually often comes out of achievement, achievement motivation.

Achievement motivation,

It's sort of like a recognition for doing really, really well on something.

And it's usually really, really well relative to other people.

So achievement motivation, you really want to be the person all the way at the top.

That's maximal achievement motivation satisfaction if you're number one.

If you're number two, you might actually get to that situation where now you're rivals and that fuels you to go higher and higher.

We do know that achievement motivation is a motivation like many other motivations that's probably normally distributed.

So the desire for achievement and achievement recognition will be stronger in some people and weaker in others.