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I do not consider myself competitive at all, but people I know, and some I know well and who arguably know me well (including my wife) have routinely made the throwaway comment about me that I am. In that vein, I would suggest, despite your protestations, that you may be more competitive than you think--at least this is what I suspect from my reading your posts here. It's true, you do not rise easily and irrationally to challenges (as many, many do) but if that is competitiveness, I have to reluctantly echo f3zinker and ask what the attraction to such a trait might be.
You do not like PvP. Why not? Because it enrages you to lose. Might I suggest that is indicative of the strong desire to not lose, which, arguably, is one definition of competitiveness. You probably control yourself well enough that you simply avoid this darker pathological part of your character. I suspect if and when real challenges arise and you are equipped or potentially able to equip yourself to deal with them (e.g. anything involving thinking) you'll do fine without whatever particular Ehrgeiz you imagine you are lacking.
This does not answer your question and is of course presumptuous as a reply, so for that I apologize.
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