The Competing Mindset Versus the Dominating Mindset

Kate Hastings Show · May 21, 2026 · 1h 8m

There is a difference between competing and dominating, and most people have never had it named for them clearly. Competing is a scarcity wound dressed up as ambition. It keeps you measuring yourself against the people next to you, draining your energy through comparison, and tying your worth to outcomes that were never meant to hold it. Dominating is something else entirely. It is the natural overflow of a person who has built a real internal foundation, who operates from wholeness instead of striving, who leads themselves in the small unseen decisions, and who approaches every circumstance…