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Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

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Children may also learn entitlement from the cultures they populate, including schools, sports teams, or clubs.

they are forced to develop their outer world. They learn to develop the superficial skill sets that will win over their emotionally unavailable parents, which may include being a pleaser, being physically attractive, excelling at sports, overachieving as a student, or overdeveloping some other niche skill, such as playing an instrument, dancing, or winning spelling bees. This dichotomy of having underdeveloped insides and an overdeveloped outside allows them to become compartmentalized

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Being a football fan entitles us to a temporary, recurring retreat, a short holiday from real existence. Our lives can be in chaos and nothing seem fixed. Nothing except how we feel on a Saturday at 3pm, when we are elevated into blissful and infuriating distraction. What a privilege that is.

Things aren’t always fair in this world,” Coach Wooden said calmly. “Things aren’t always going to go your way. That’s life. I see so much self-inflicted pain and stress caused by people who think they’re entitled to having everything go their way. They think everything should always be fair. But that’s not the way this world works. “It’s actually quite liberating when you accept this fact,” he added.

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