it is necessary to be competitive to succeed in life

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it is necessary to be competitive to succeed in life

I disagree with the idea that it is necessary to be competitive to succeed in life. Sometimes life offers no alternative to competition, but there are better options most of the time. Competing against someone else usually requires too much energy Also, competition often leads to somebody's feelings getting hurt. I think cooperation is easier and nicer than competition.

First of all, I think that competing is usually a waste of energy Competition is about feeling superior to someone else, which usually involves spending more energy than the other person. Some time ago, a friend and I both bought a video game and started competing to see who could earn the highest score. To get higher scores, my friend and I spent increasing amounts of time and energy playing the game. Eventually, I had no energy left after playing and couldn't do anything else. I decided it wasn't worth it and refocused my energy on other activities.

I also dislike competition because at least one of the competitors always loses. Losing usually makes the loser feel sad or angry so I don't think situations should be approached competitively. A classmate and I once found ourselves tied for the top rank of a dass mid-semester. For the rest of the semester, we competed to overtake each other's rankings, and in the end she came in second. She felt as if her effort had been wasted and was pretty sad.

Cooperating is a much better alternative to competing. Everybody involved can spend less energy to achieve the same results, and cooperative behavior rarely leads to sadness or anger. One time, a friend and both wanted to participate in a writing competition. Rather than act competitively, we decided to cooperate with each other. We edited each other's stories and helped each other write. When his story did better than mine, I didn't feel bad, because I had helped him write it.

While some people might think it’s necessary to be competitive in order to succeed, I think that being competitive is not a great option.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, while, at least, i think, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 52.1666666667 65% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1977.66487455 85% => OK
No of words: 342.0 407.700716846 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.90058479532 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75622292577 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605263157895 0.524837075471 115% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.1246156351 48.9658058833 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.8095238095 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2857142857 20.6045352989 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42857142857 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220026953346 0.236089414692 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0683554976699 0.076458572812 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.164887788416 0.0737576698707 224% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173309231883 0.150856017488 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.180807756797 0.0645574589148 280% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 11.7677419355 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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