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- Individual achievement is the focus: Students spend a bulk of their time focusing on improving their GPAs — school is a competition among peers. “But innovation is a team sport,” says Wagner. “Yes, it requires some solitude and reflection, but fundamentally problems are too complex to innovate…
// This past year and a half I have been learning about how virtually everything I had learned up until this point is wrong or severely degraded from the right where it started. I still struggle to find internal motivation & catch myself longing to just BE TOLD WHAT TO DO, again. And I hate it.
(Source: forbes.com)