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embracing positive-sum

winning by Vincent H. '23 embracing positive-sum April 2, 2023 in How to Human for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in – other people doing well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself, and so on – but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for instance, i remember feeling little pangs of resentment whenever one of my friends found a new friend group that they began spending lots of time with, or wh

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