Winning : reflections on an American obsession /
"Most of us are taught from a young age to be winners and avoid being losers. But what does it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so much? Does winning make us happy? Winning undertakes an unprecedented investigation of winning and losing in American society, what we are really after as we...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2011.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s521 |
Table of Contents:
- The problem
- Differentiation
- I win, therefore I am right
- The quest for space
- Powers and limitations
- Types of winners and losers
- Process versus outcomes
- Injecting value
- Awareness and competition
- Our restlessness.