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the only person who studies your work as obsessively as you do.
means A person competing with another for the same goal, prize, or position — your direct competitor.
from From Latin 'rivalis,' which literally meant someone who shares the same 'rivus,' or stream. Picture two neighbors drawing water from one river — useful when it flows, but a flashpoint when it runs low. From that shared-water squabble the word came to mean any two people contending over the same thing, and English borrowed it in that sense in the late 1500s.
- latin root
- from rivalis, those sharing the same river
- water wars
- originally neighbors fighting over one stream
- hidden gift
- a worthy rival sharpens you faster than praise
- sports proof
- records fall most when two greats collide
for instance
india vs pakistan cricket — bilateral cricket rivalry since 1952 with massive viewership and political tension
celtic vs rangers — old firm in glasgow, scotland's fiercest football rivalry dating to 1872