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Competition kills creativity

Competition kills creativity

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Graeme McDowall
Jan 27, 2024
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Competition kills creativity! This isn’t one of these pink and fluffy messages about why kids shouldn’t be competitive, they should but probably not in the adult sense of the word. Kids compete all the time. They do it informally and in their own language. They play by different rules, subscribe to different conv…

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