Top Dog The Science Of Winning And Losing Analysis

“Johnny, you have to come upstairs to see my room!” Daniel shouted, with a smile spread across his face. Daniel was nine years old and had started playing community sports once he turned five. He played four seasons a year – soccer, basketball, lacrosse, and baseball – and received a participation trophy at the end of each season. That meant there were almost twenty trophies in his room! Not to mention the extra few he had snuck out of his brothers’!
Johnny bounded up the stairs, as fast as his little body could handle, excited to see what Daniel had to show him! As soon as he set foot in the doorway, his mouth fell open in awe. “OH MY GOSH!” he shouted, “so many trophies!” Downstairs, Daniel’s mom heard the shout and sheepishly apologized to Johnny’s mom for the ruckus. “This always happens when Danny shows his guests all of his trophies,” she said biting back a grin. “He’s just an amazing athlete!” Years later, Daniel wondered what happened. He made his middle school …show more content…
Ashely Merryman, co-author of “Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing” did a study on children whose received lots of participation awards and discovered that those children were more likely to develop narcissistic traits, acting more superior and entitled like Johnny. Not only do these millennial children become self-absorbed, but there is a chain of other qualities and attitudes that result in kids being unable to become independent and these qualities stay with them and hurt them for the rest of their lives. For example, Susan Haines, Licensed Medical Counselor and Talani Torres, experienced Dance Teacher did research together to test how millennials that grew up in the “trophy culture” were impacted. They found overwhelming results to support that Children are raised to think that they are the best and when they find out they aren’t they go into shock. One of the older dance students