Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different…

Alfie Kohn
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things. ✨ Alfie Kohn (2013). No Contest: The Case Against Competition, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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