Rival

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A rival is a system member who motivates and encourages the system / individual members by acting as their “rival”. Rivals purposefully get on the nerves of the system to create a spite-filled reaction from their target(s) in the hopes of creating a competitive environment where their target(s) attempt to “one-up” or “best” the system rival.

For example, a system rival may continuously point out the unfolded laundry in a mocking manner, in the hopes their target(s) will decide to start putting it away in order to spite the rival’s judgements.

As well, system rivals may do this to purposefully distract their target(s) from their anxieties. For example, a system rival may decide to playfully bully their target(s) in order to get them mad, thereby not allowing them to dwell on their current issues.

Related Terms
A contrarian advisor (or contrarival) is a subterm to rival. This persuasive system member motivates an individual member or system in the same competitive way than the rival; the difference is that they encourage by talking exclusively in reverse psychology, in order to make their target(s) reflect on a specific situation so they can decide to change things on their own, rather than being forced to change things through someone else's decision.