Ah yes sorry about that! I didn't realize that you had posted TheOnion.
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There's such a thing as healthy competition. But this bubble in time in which kids burn themselves out in high school to get into a "name" college and then burn themselves out in college to get the "name" internship and then the "name" job does not seem healthy to me. It all presumes a level of maturity, ambition and drive that I'm not sure should be expected of kids (especially boys, many of whom seem to mature a bit more slowly).
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Here's a more extreme example:Alexandra Robbins (Author of
The Overachievers Quote:
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I've heard hundreds of similar stories from former overachievers. All of us eventually came to understand that there is an enormous difference between résumé and identity. We learned what would behoove many of today's top students--and their parents--to embrace: that achievement does not lead to fulfillment; it turns out to be the other way around.
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