Respect your opponents. They’re the reason you got better.

The people across from you set the level you had to reach. Without someone forcing you to move faster or think one step further, you would still be running the same three things that worked two years ago. Contempt makes them small in your head, and then your practice gets soft.

Pick one person you quietly keep score against. Name a single thing they do better than you and spend a week learning it. You can do that and still want to beat them.