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A Bigger Prize

How We Can Do Better Than the Competition

Margaret Heffernan . 2014 . 658.04 HEF . Beaverton Lib


Part I . Personal Best

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  • p014 ref. 7 p331 Mark N. Bing 1999 "Hypercompetitiveness in Academia: Achieving Criterion-Related Validity From Item Context Specificity"

  • p015 personality is biology, parental attachment, social support, culture, and experience
  • p016 family dinners give-and-take, cut-and-thrust, passionate debate
  • p017 Parents with mediation training allowed severe disputes, children became creative problem solvers
  • p017 Psychological de-identification refers to the process of consciously distancing oneself from certain aspects of the self—such as emotions, thoughts, roles, or behaviors—to gain perspective

  • p017 Frances Schachter children become different in order not to fight.

  • p020 Wilbur and Orville Wright argued fiercely and often, benefiting their project
  • p022 Frans de Waal showed chimps dislike unfairness, reject unequal sharing.

  • p024 ch02 Making the Grade

  • p024 Charles Shubert MIT

  • p027 Amy Chua Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother "self-mocking memoir"

  • p028 US youth unemployment rate, 26% unemployed age 25-24, lower wages in 2013 than in 2000
  • p029 Bright Kids $$$ tutoring for placement exams

  • p030 No Child Left Behind Race to the Top

  • p030 focus on reading and math, not science, literature, history, civics, and the arts
  • p031 students promised awards for drawing stopped drawing without rewards
  • p032 Joy Paul Guilford Convergent "one correct answer" thinking versus divergent thinking

  • p032 kill childhood creativity
    • (1) work for expected reward
    • (2) focus pupils on expected evaluation
    • (3) plenty of surveillance
    • (4) setting up restricted choices
    • (5) creating competitive situations
  • p033 C. J. Skender accounting teacher at Duke and UNC

    • sees the best in his students
    • climate of safety where mistakes are part of learning
  • p033 worrier students good at homework, warrior students good at exams
  • p036 rankings pit students against each other
  • p036 people intensely motivated by choice of when and how to work, take ownership
  • p037 the cost of motivating top 1 percent is demotivation of other 99 percent
  • p037 college entrance résumé padding
  • p039 American student debt over a trillion dollars
    • 4 million graduates per year, 10 year payoff, $25K per graduate?
  • p040 Ron Wyden Know Before You Go

  • p040 Adderall illicit college student performance enhancer

  • p040 Stuyvesant High School 80% of students cheat rather than waste time on disliked subjects

  • p041 95% of US students cheat in one form or another
  • p041 Turnitin plagiarism detection software

  • p043 https://wetakeyourclass.com https://boostmygrade.com/

  • p043 students of author's entrepreneurship course: "how would I grade them?"
  • p044 learning for rewards not useful for future
  • p045 Harvard Art|Science Team (?)
  • p045 St. Joseph Singapore

  • p047 Teach Less, Learn More

  • p047 Blackawton bees Biology Letters 2011 April 23

  • p049 PISA Program for International Student Assessment

  • p049 Germany scored below OECD average, achievement more correlated with family socioeconomic status, students ranked and sorted into three tracks, limiting achievement
  • p050 top performing schools do better job of educating everybody
  • p050 Luxembourg most expensive schools, ranked near last in achievement
  • p050 Margaret Thatcher says nations depend on a talented few
  • p050 Finns explicitly rejected this, couldn't afford to waste any human talent
  • p051 no standardized tests until eighth grade; written assessments but not grades
  • p051 Finland not small, heterogeneous, fastest diversifying in Europe
  • p052 We are such a small country, we cannot afford to lose any child
  • p052 All Finn teachers must have master's degree, rated more highly than doctors, architects, and lawyers. Free to determine how they teach.
  • p053 very little central government interference, schools and teachers autonomous
  • p056 money only 20% of outcome, streaming and pay incentives ineffective
  • p056 Finland 4th most scientific publications of the OECD countries, above average patents per capita
  • p058 ch03 The Morning After

  • p058 Olympics: American women outperformed the rest of the world AND American men
  • p059 Male scientists decided women are different, female scientists found no cognitive or developmental differences
  • p059 women's competitiveness unaffected by menstrual cycle
  • p060 competitive women performed as well as men. Most women preferred to not compete
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  • p063 "all m/f I interviewed" insisted on financial contribution

  • p067 Helen Gurley Brown ... marriage is always the end game
  • p070 "Beth" ... no job, no money, no baby -- what a loser!
  • p071 David and Sarah bickered and kept score, he had affair at work, they separated
  • p071 adultery is a form of competition
  • p072 Nathaniel Blumenthal/Branden and Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum / Alice O'Connor / Ayn Rand
  • p073 NB: "You can't love someone and compete with them" "Love isn't winning an argument"
  • p073 "... we all benefit from the work that we all do"
  • p074 "marriage shares a lot of properties of collaboration: you share the wings"
  • p074 "... it must be terrifying for young men when this apparition turns up looking like nothing they have ever looked before!"
  • p079 ch04 Angry Birds

  • p080 Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe "pecking order"

  • p081 Kristine Bonnevie mentor

  • p081 Schjelderup-Ebbe copied but unrecognized
  • p082 best-liked usually not top-ranked
  • p083 sociologist Stanford Gregory low 0.5 kHz hum conveys social status

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  • p102 Bill Gore
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  • p103 PTFE
  • p104 Terri Kelly
  • p105 Morning Star
  • p108 Nucor Steel
  • p109 First Rand eBucks
  • p110 Karl Rabeder Credot
  • p112 ch05 Keeping Score

    • sports
  • p124 Single US football player 1000 blows to head per season, 75% chance of concussions
  • p124 NFL linemen 52% greater heart disease risk than general population
  • p124 97% overweight, 50% obese
  • p125 6 suicides, dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy

  • p125 second most dangerous sport cheerleading; risky stunts, untrained coaches, hard surfaces
  • p128 former NFL suicide rate six times average, divorce rate 60-70%
  • p129 Don Catlin developed tests for street drugs

  • p130 14% of athletes use banned substances, 2% are caught
  • p131 Sports 2% of GDP
  • p131 2004 BALCO Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative supplied performance-enhancing drugs

  • p131 Victor Conte

  • p132 Travis Tygart

  • p134 Steven Baddeley

  • p135 Travis Tygart True Sport report

  • p137 Mike Brearley

  • p138 The Apprentice

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Part II . The Case of the Purdue Chickens

  • p157 ch06 Only the Impresarios Survive

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  • p190 ref 39 John Abele "Bringing Minds Together", Harvard Business Review (July-August 2011).
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Part III . The Business of Winning

  • p209 ch07 Clone Wars

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  • p233 ch08 Supersize Everything

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  • p267 ch09 How Low Can We Go?

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  • p293 ch10 Top of the World

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  • p320 ch11 A Bigger Prize

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