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 .p017 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/04/obituaries/frances-schachter-a-child-psychologist-and-researcher-61.html | Frances Schachter ]] children become different in order ''not'' to fight.
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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

  • p042 https://wetakeyourclass.com https://boostmygrade.com/

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  • p105 Morning Star
  • p108 Nucor Steel
  • p109 First Rand eBucks
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  • p112 ch05 Keeping Score

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  • 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

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  • p131 Sports 2% of GDP
  • p131 2004 BALCO Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative supplied performance-enhancing drugs

  • p131 Victor Conte

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  • p134 Steven Baddeley

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Part II . The Case of the Purdue Chickens

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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

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