Participation Trophies

Why do we get participation trophies. If you are in a sport and your team loses all of its games, but you still get a trophy than deep down you will not be proud of that trophy, it will just bring back bad memories. If you do not feel like you earned the trophy than you will not get any sense of success and accomplishment when you look at it because you would know that you did not deserve it. When someone is given a prize for failing they will not be ready for they real world because they will be used to being a winner even though they really were a loser. In the real world everyone is trying to be top dog, they do not care if you fail as long as they succeed. Everyone has to be prepared to lose and to bounce back from it, because they will

lose at some point in their life. “The human spirit is hard-wired to be resilient. If we begin to use these trying times to mature in the midst of hardship, many of us will discover the meaning we so desperately crave.” However life is not fair, sometimes somebody might get the job you wanted because their parents had lots of money and “Donated” it to the company to sway their decision. If you have never had to get back up and try again because you have always been a “winner” than you will not be able to When kids receive participation trophies it gives them a false sense of accomplishment, so they will not attempt to get better, stronger, faster so they can actually earn the trophy. When we get treated like this as we are growing up, we feel that we will get the prize without having to put in the work, get your dream job without having to actually try. This will not happen in the real world. If you want to succeed you need to be better than everyone else work hard and put in the time and effort.