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    DHH‏Verified account @dhh 21 Aug 2018

    Participation trophies are great. Making kids feel good about participating rather than competing is a completely healthy dynamic that we should celebrate rather than demean. Feeling proud because you did something rather than beat someone? 👌

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      2. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 21 Aug 2018

        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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      3. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 21 Aug 2018

        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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      4. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 21 Aug 2018

        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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      1. Andrés Hevia‏ @unandreshevia 21 Aug 2018
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        Participation trophies are great... ... Great way to build a generation of minimum-effort, mediocre people.

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      2. Stuart Knipe‏ @stuartknipe 21 Aug 2018
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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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      3. A.J. Alger, PhD‏ @abdullahalger 22 Aug 2018
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        That's spot on

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      2. Justin Lawson‏ @jjustin_lawson 22 Aug 2018
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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?

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      3. Dr. Allison‏ @a_llie 22 Aug 2018
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        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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      2. CrisprCash9‏ @chromatocosmos 21 Aug 2018
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        The adage "90% of success is showing up" is grossly underrated

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      3. Ilir Shkurti‏ @ilirshkurti 22 Aug 2018
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        Since there’d be zero percent success without showing up, you’re about right.

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