To fulfill yourself through success is to never be enough: you no longer realize yourself except in the ranking, against the defeat of others.

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Rousseau, Alain Ehrenberg · Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; The Weariness of the Self

The path of fulfillment makes the good the full unfolding of oneself: developing one's talents, carrying out one's projects, becoming all one can be.
But in sport as elsewhere, this fulfillment is soon measured by success: by the time, the rank, the medal. And rank knows no rest, the record broken becomes the new floor, and there will always be someone stronger. You no longer realize yourself, you compare yourself.
To compare yourself is to hang your worth on the gaze and the defeat of others. named this passion to be worth more than one's neighbor, which he set against amour de soi, the simple concern to live. It knows no satiety, for its object is not a good to reach, but a gap to maintain.
Fulfillment then turns into an : no longer unfolding what one is, but forever proving one's worth, under the gaze of a judge, oneself or others, whom nothing contents.

Therefore So to make success into self-fulfillment is to trade an end one reaches for a comparison that always recedes: you do not realize yourself, you wear yourself out not to fall behind.

Deepenings

Amour de soi, amour-propre

Amour de soi, says , is the natural concern for one's own preservation: it is governed by one's needs and settles once they are met.
Amour-propre, by contrast, is born of life in society: it compares itself only to others and enjoys only surpassing them. That is why it is insatiable, for there is no rank so high that another cannot contest it.

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