Zero-Sum Bias

Essentially, many people slip into what Daniel V. Meegan, a psychologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, has identified as a “a zero-sum bias.” They believe they are in scenarios of cutthroat competition even when they are not.

I don’t like people that compete. Especially if they try to compete with me.

I see them as stupid, I cannot do anything about it.

Competing with each other, I don’t know, maybe playing a video game. But the real life is much more complicated.

If someone cannot stand but compete with others all the time — compete compete compete — I’m struggling to see that as a behaviour of an intelligent person.