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Yes, rivals do take away a good part of your earning but in long-term, if you work with a positive spirit,\u00a0they could prove\u00a0beneficial for your creativity, hence better image.\u00a0Those who hate rivals and try to eliminate them are in actuality risking their own growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you have a rival? Someone whose work makes you jealous? Or who you secretly want to beat at the next award show? When they do something that makes you wish you did it, do you throw out whatever you\u2019re working on and start again? If not, find one. Your work might get better.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Wilson had The Beatles. Since both the Beach Boys and The Beatles recorded for Capital, they got to hear each other\u2019s albums before they hit record stores. Rubber Soul inspired Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds led to Sgt. Pepper\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Picasso had Henri Matisse. In fact a MoMA exhibit earlier this year focused on how each artist\u2019s genius pushed the other to re-examine his own work.<\/p>\n<p>You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse\u2019s painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.\u00a0Picasso told\u00a0his biographer\u00a0Pierre Daix.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a class=\"cs_link\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardboches.com\/every-creative-person-needs-a-rival\" target=\"_blank\">Every creative person needs a rival | Creativity Unbound<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The present trend towards rivals is, get rid of them, defame them, buy them off. How often do we realize that our rivals are\u00a0our friends too? Imagine what could have happened to IT industry if Microsoft did not rival Apple? Wasn&#8217;t it Windows that made Apple better? 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