Do you think you can conquer yourself ?

I don't think thats an issue to be honest. First you need to accept the way you are, see if you can improve or not. Failing to do this will make you try to be better and better, beating everyone, showing you are the boss, but that's just a lower self-esteem you have for yourself. In my opinion we need to be a less egocentric people. I believe that this society is getting more egocentric each day that passes away. You can see that in jobs, school, street, everywhere everyday. I were a person that loved to compete because it would make me feel good about myself, but I realized that was just not enough. When you win, you feel complete, than that feeling goes away, are you going to compete every single day of your existence to feel good about yourself trying to hide the esteem and respect that you lack? I don't think so. First you need to accept what you are, how you are. Doesn't matter what people think about you. If you think that competing makes you go somewhere, that's wrong. Accepting this idea is difficult, accepting ourselves can be hard as well. In the end, when you accept "ourself" you will be a better person with a different concept of live and see where others fail. I'm trying to explain the best as I can.. but is hard, is not an easy discussion. It involves many things, but in the end, the result is this. The competitions that we see, are made by ourselves to prevent us to lower our confidence in the "ego". Some people have their Ego so high, that they are difficult to handle. They are the hardest people to deal with. If they fail they will be miserable. And that's not the issue. We fail, that's a fact, but we should be able to learn with our mistakes and improve ourselves without being sad because we lost. We should be grateful because we are learning. Maybe it's the hardest way, but that is what is called learning. Some people don't think this way, they simply compete to be better, and to rise up their Ego further high. Their confidence, respect and self-esteem is so low that they can even think about this for a second. I'm not saying that I'm perfect in this, I simply accept what I am, and now, I really hate seeing people competing.. its so.. absurd. Anyways, sorry for the long long text.. but that's my point of view :p

hello wildlittlefan! in order for us to conquer others, we have to conquer first our number 1 enemy, which is our self. if we will be able to conquer our own self, our weaknesses, our fears, and knows how to use and maximize our strengths, that will be the time that we can have the opportunity to conquer others. we should start first within ourselves, for how could we fight others, conquer others if our own little fears will get the best of us? if we also know how to discipline our self, and know how to use our strengths and playdown our weaknesses, then it would be easier for us to conquer and win over other people. Other people would be on the lookout for our weaknesses and if we dont know how to counteract it because we don't know what's our weakness, then we would probably succumb to the other person. We would probably lose. however, knowing one's self in and out will equip us when we compete with other people.

In life, I think that the person that you have to conquer the most is yourself. I've been battling my weight for the greatest majority of my life and in beating this problem, the only person that I have to beat is myself. So, though the battle that has been ongoing for several years isn't over yet, the only person that I am battling in this is myself and I will be the only person that will have to suffer or feel success when this battle is over is myself.

For me I can't do that because no body is perfect.

I agree too. My greatest enemy right now is myself. And I have plenty of enemies which is why I need to conquer myself and become stronger against those foes. My dietary habits, work habits, and self sabotage, are the methods my self uses against me. It's quite a war.

Well it is true that one's greatest competitor is the one itself. If you really want to succeed in life you have to be a conquerer of yourself. Although we dont realize this fact much but its always a "Me Against Myself" condition in every situation and decision of life. So we have to be brave enough to conquer our own self and once we master this art we are no far from a successful life.

yeah, competition with somebody or ourselves is interesting and the feeling is good. Believe in yourself would be ok!

I fight myself everyday, especially in the morning when it's time to get up. Sometimes it happens that in the middle of the "fight" that the upper half of my body lays on the floor while the lower half remains in the bed so when someone from my family sees me in this position they laugh at me. I guess it is important to accept ourselves as we are but is it necessary to accept all our negatives too? Some are really nasty, and I'm not talking about beauty loss. Take laziness for example. Should we really accept it? If I do I wouldn't be able to do anything since I'd be too lazy to even move my finger. I fight with it every day and it helps me to rub along. And I'll fight all my life unless some miracle will happen and my laziness will just disappear. But life is one big battlefield. We fight to become better people, someone our parents, children will be pride of. I guess it's inevitable unless someone will born perfect but as we now there are no such people around;)

hello there, well, this is one enemy that i have almost failed to conquer, and most of the time it conquers me, which is really confusing, which one of us is real. but i guess conquering yourself is actually the big leap for change and moving on. probably a lot why aren't that achievers because they can't even conquer they're own fear, which is really sad for them.

Your thoughts are highly appreciable. Yes, we can really conquer ourselves provided we have that strong determination to do. Many have don even we too can do that.We can give so many examples of persons who have really conquered but with many hardships.

Yes, I agree that the greatest enemy you have is yourself. The internal struggle is most likely the hardest you will ever have. Mostly because everything stems off from your internal self. Buddha once said "we are the authors of our own disease", and I think that is relevant here.