The other/another/ as a result

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When talking about the negative impact of competition are both "the other" and "another" and my use of "as a result" correct?

"Continuous competition is beneficial, but there is the other/another side of the coin. It leads to stress and as a result to burnout."
 
When talking about the negative impact of competition, are both "the other" and "another", and my use of "as a result", correct?
Note my added punctuation. You needed to separate "both 'the other' and 'the other'" from "my use of 'as a result'".
Continuous competition is beneficial, but there is the other/another side of the coin.
If you use "the other", it suggests that most people already know what that other side is and you're simply going to reinforce what they already know. If you use "another", you're simply saying there are two sides to every coin and you're about to tell us what the flip side is.
As you can see from my preceding sentence, I'd use "to a/the/every coin". I've left your "of" in because it's not wrong. It's just more common, in BrE at least, to say "There are two sides to every coin".
It leads to stress and, as a result, to burnout."
Note my added punctuation.
 

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