"Healthy jealousy" inside Daily Email House?

John Bejakovic

Dec '25 • Community META

Can I get your help?

I'm wondering how we could create the equivalent atmosphere of an under-15 tennis camp here inside Daily Email House.

The background:

A couple days ago, I was watching an interview with a pro tennis player, Francis Tiafoe.

Tiafoe is part of a generation of top American tennis players who all came up together. And by that I mean...

They lived together in the same dorms, sleeping in bunk beds one above the other...

... they trained together on same courts for hours each day, day after day...

... they competed against each other since they were 12.

And today they are all in the top 10 top 20 in the world.

It's kind of like if, inside this Daily Email House group, 5-10 House members today end up being among the top 10 or top 20 biggest and richest online influencers in the world in 10 years from now, on the scale of Tim Ferris or Gary Vee.

Speaking about what made this possible, Tiafoe said:

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They did a good job always putting us in camps [to train together and to compete against each other].

I'm seeing these guys two weeks out of every month, from 13 on.

I'm looking around, trying to be the best out of this group, not really thinking about big picture, turning pro, or anything like that.

But this group right here? I GOTTA be the guy.

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The guy interviewing Tiafoe, a former world #1 named Andy Roddick, called this "healthy jealousy."

On the one hand, maybe you don't like the sound of jealousy, whether healthy or not.

At the same time, consider what Tiafoe also said.

First off, he said that he and all the other guys who came up together are all still friends today, 15+ years after being thrown in these "healthy jealousy" tennis camps to train and compete together.

He also put a positive spin on the competition and jealousy part of it:

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Everybody just kept going. We always had that mentality, "Well if this guy did it, I can definitely do it." We just kept believing off each other.

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That sound pretty nice actually.

And it got me wondering... how could we implement something that taps into the same instincts here inside Daily Email House?

Last week, we had a competition for "the biggest success."

That produced some results, and maybe some "healthy jealousy."

But I bet there's more we could be doing.

Problem is, I'm not really smart enough to think it up on my own.

Maybe you could help?

Do you have any thoughts about how to encourage "healthy jealousy" in a community like this? How we could use each other to believe that taking the next step is actually doable? How we can drive each other to constantly improve, for the sake of making everybody more successful long term?

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