We live in a hyper-competitive world. We are constantly being told that we have to be better than everyone else, because otherwise in this "dog-eat-dog" society we will fall behind, and someone else will take "our" place. And we are telling our children this, from a very young age we are driving them to be obsessed with grades, performance, trophies, medals, awards, and all the other knickknacks that we have devised to adorn achievement. This has become an unhealthy obsession