If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to to bring peace to all.
Speak out against corruption. We need to fight injustice, but without anger or violence. Fight with a calm and serene mind.
Contemplating upon divine qualities, performing good deeds and chanting are all ways of destroying delusion through satsang.
Hanuman, the devotee of Rama, said: When I identify myself with the body, O Lord, I am Thy creature, eternally separate from Thee. When I identify myself with the soul, I am a spark of that Divine Fire which Thou art. But when I identify myself with the Atman, I and Thou art one.

