# This Book (‘No Contest’...
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This book (‘No Contest’ by Alfie Kohn) explains how I lost my internal locus of control.
“Students reporting positive attitudes toward competitive relationships with others, have greater dependence on evaluation and performance-based assessments of personal worth.”
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You give into competition, you outsource your happiness to others. My high school drilled this attitude into me.
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“Those who work with, rather than against, others feel more in control of their own lives.”
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In retrospect looking at my life, I didn’t start becoming a person in my mind until I finally ended up in a cooperative environment. Then I actually started reforming a self.
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Reading this and comparing it to my experience all throughout life, suddenly all the positive environments I was in begin to make sense. Our society is so broken.
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Put simply…
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