If we are honest, we can see that our enemies made us better by forcing us to get better to deal with them.
If we had no enemies or competitors, we’d be lazy and complacent.
A primary feature of capitalism is that it has providers trying to out do each other to win the consumer’s business.
This effort makes the providers stretch, innovate, try harder, and get creative to win. The consumer is the winner as they get more for less, and better stuff.
Among the providers, the ones whom the consumer doesn’t like, starve and go out of business. This is how things get better. The consumer is in charge, and providers try to be their best choice.
How has having “enemies” or competitors made you better?
What did it make you do?
Choose between comfort and growth, Status Quo vs. Stretching
Enemies and “competitors” often resort to bullying when they can’t compete head to head. This bullying very often consists of spreading rumors of some “bad” thing about our business. These things could be completely untrue but might also contain a shred of truth. It takes significant extra effort to counter a bad rumor and that extra effort makes us better. It forces us to a higher plateau. The extra effort could become habit, procedure or policy. At that point the whole business is better for it!