How Teachers Can Avoid the “Compare and Despair” Trap

There are some intuitive reasons why we’ve evolved to judge ourselves in comparison to others. Competitiveness, self-criticism, and envy are universal human tendencies that can be motivating in the right amounts. Other times, comparing ourselves to others makes us feel so unlikely to catch up that we might as well just shut down. A modern... Read more »

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