But that’s not how the real world works!! Sure it is. It’s the cornerstone of our business philosophy at Basecamp: No goals of dominating our market, no care as to beating the competition. Just a love of making great software for happy customers.
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We’ve done quite very well thankful despite not winning any business trophies or taking any competitive scalps. Business viewed solely through the lens of adversarial conflict is myopic. There’s so much blue ocean out there.
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Participation, simply trying your best, is how anyone gets started on the road to mastery. Encouraging that is ace. Doubly so when the trophy is explicitly not rationed to only a small subset of participants. Nice pad on the shoulder without replacing intrinsic motivation.
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Participation trophies are great... ... Great way to build a generation of minimum-effort, mediocre people.
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I agree, but the biggest mistake that has been made was to teach kids only to win, not how to be better through losing
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That's spot on
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@a_llie - curious to know your thoughts on this. part of me believes children cannot learn from mistakes when they’re celebrated for losing. does this make it harder to develop the willingness to persevere and build resiliency? -
well damn that's complicated. like any good social scientist I'm going to start with...it depends. The answer is somewhere in a cross of cognitive development, psychology, and motivation research. I think, looking at this through Expectancy Theory (a theory of motivation)...
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The adage "90% of success is showing up" is grossly underrated
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Since there’d be zero percent success without showing up, you’re about right.
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