The normalisation of mediocrity?
Screw that.
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Maybe itâs good that the world is moving in that direction, I donât know.
The problem is that not every society is moving in that direction at the same time, or at the same rate. So the first ones to pacify themselves by getting rid of their competitive instincts and reaching the coveted Eloi stage are going to end up getting cannibalized by the others. Once again, maybe thatâs a good thing. I wonât be alive to find out either way.
Proving is vital to society. Whether thatâs done with tribal contests as in the Collective, or by corporate competition as in the State is irrelevant. Children who donât learn to compete donât grow into balanced individuals, when âEveryone is a winnerâ, nobody is.
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Thatâs not what itâs about, they encourage kids to compete against themselves. Apparently kids get on better in that environment and are more social. Probably because they donât have the pressures of competition with others after all we are not all made equal.
No doubt it also helps with kids mental health, if a kid loses all the time it wonât do them much good and such things can have long lasting effects.
Yea but itâs a flat out unhealthy mindset for kids to have, that theyâre always winners. Participation trophies suck and we all know what that did to some people (a lot of people are entitled brats now). Removing competitive vocabulary altogether avoids the issue because everybody is âequalâ in a sense but that idea kinda just rubs me the wrong way. Wrether people like it or not life will have winners and losers (unless everyone is the same, in which case you have pure communism) and being ignorant of that probably isnât going to help much.
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Your country is so behind the times. Mine was doing all that â â â â back in the nineties. Everybody wins. Nobody loses. I was seriously considering homeschooling my kids through primary and secondary school.
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Competing with oneself means that you get to set the standards that you aspire to, and many will set that level as low as possible.
Idiocracy was a warning, not a guidebook.
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If kids get on better with each other they are more likely to help each other.
Competition tends to divide more than bring people together, whereas competition against yourself doesnât effect anyone else.
I knew it was being tested in at least one school and last I heard they were getting good results.
You have a good point but theres also the numerous problems it will cause once they leave school. In the real world, most things are competitive in some way and if someone grew up in a world that held their hand so much they never had to worry about competition, itâs not going to go well, I imagine
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Like good results where? This sort of castration has made an entire generation of people who have no idea how to deal with conflict.
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We already know that it doesnât go well. The last generation are the most depressed generation we have data on. Anxiety in youths and young adults has spiked.
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Generation Snowflake, where everybody is special.
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or nobody is special
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Yep, and itâs because they were all told they were winners, even if they absolutely werenât. When the real world hit them, they didnât know what to do because they thought of themselves as the best. If someone grows up in an environment where instead of being told theyâre winners, theyâre told nobody wins or loses, itâll probably have a similar result.
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That suggests there is something inherently wrong with losing. How did you come to that conclusion?
I doubt that.
A sense of âteamâ seems more strong when itâs our tribe vs their tribe.
Focusing on self would seem to encourage isolationist and introverted attitude.
âIâm playing my way. Donât interrupt meâ
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The people that are special are the ones that succeed when all the odds are stacked against them.
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The idea isnât to keep patting them on the back and saying how good they are, itâs to encourage them to progress try to better themselves at their own pace (their ability).
I do wonder what the transition between school and the work place will be, maybe before that happens the work place will change.
Having someone else to compete against tends to be a pretty good motivator in my experience. If youâre competing with yourself with no comparison of others, you might be happy with whatever you got at some point, wrether thatâs pretty good or trash
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You know maybe thatâs where it really comes from.
Theyâre not used to losing. They hate it when others interfere. They donât want to accept the rules they instead want them changed to suit their expectations. They stick to themselves. They donât like competition.
Carebears.
Edit- and real life hits them like a gank in Uedama.
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No, it isnât good for your mental health to not be told that you are mediocre at something. You need to know that you are in order to either progress or move on to an other activity.
We are heading towards a situation where we blame people for being goods because that hurts the feelings of other less goods people, and instead encourage them to be and stay mediocre so that at least they will never hurt anyones feelings.
Thatâs pathetic.
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