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    Ian Bogost
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    Genesis 2:15-17, Exodus 20:1-17 , Job 1:6-12, Matthew 7:13-14, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Psalm 119:105
    Games aren’t appealing because they are fun, but because they are limited. Because they erect boundaries. Because we must accept their structures in order to play them.

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    Joan Chittister
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    Everything we do is about winning something or measuring one person against another or garnering goods in great quantity, not because we need them but in order that others can’t have them. We make lif...

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    Robert Wright
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    No other animal plays non-zero sum games as tirelessly as we do. Much of your emotional life is natural selection’s way of getting you to play. Gratitude for favors rendered and guilt over neglecting ...

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    Patient of James Hollis, Psychologist
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    I always sought to win whatever the game was, and only now do I realize how much I have been played by the game.

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    Erin M. Straza
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    The power of changing a habit is identifying the reward you are seeking and working backward.

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    Lisa Earle McLeod
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    Childhood happiness has become the scorecard by which adults measure their success or failure as parents . . . Constantly striving to please your kids turns them into your boss. Their happiness become...

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    John C. Maxwell
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    Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

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    Gretchen Rubin
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    Habits make change possible by freeing us from decision making and from using self-control.

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    Garrison Keillor
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    Genesis 11:4 , Ecclesiastes 4:4, 1 Samuel 18:6-9 , Matthew 6:1-2 , Luke 10:38-42, Psalm 127:1-2
    I lust after recognition, I am desperate to win all the little merit badges and trinkets of my profession, and I am of less real use in this world than any good cleaning lady.

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    Sebastian Coe
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    Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

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    Daniel H. Pink
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    Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others—sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on—ca...

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    Daniel H. Pink
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    Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

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    Addison D. Bevere
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    We were created for goodness and perfection. That’s why we innovate, progress, and change. But if our progress loses its purpose, it cannibalizes our humanity, leaving us distracted and disoriented.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Moralistic behavior change done for one's self simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it.

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    Leo Tolstoy
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    Unable to value, unable to enjoy.

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    Charles Kettering
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    Psalm 37:23-24, Joshua 1:9, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Isaiah 40:31, James 1:2-4, Proverbs 24:16
    Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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    Todd Gitlin
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    People are submitting themselves to time-devouring technology. We’re a nerve-racked society where people have difficulty sitting back and thinking of the purpose of what they do.

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    Norman Cousins
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    It is a sprinting, squirting, shoving age.

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    Mary Bell
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    Ecclesiastes 2:11, Proverbs 16:3, Matthew 6:33, Philippians 3:8, James 4:10, Psalm 127:1
    Achievement is the alcohol of our time.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

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    Jen Hatmaker
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    Luke 18:10-14, Matthew 6:1, Ephesians 2:8-9, James 4:10, Galatians 6:4, Micah 6:8, Romans 12:3
    In the Christian subculture, there is an unspoken standard, a notorious goal to “win the contest.” It’s there, the contest. We don’t say it out loud, because it sounds ludicrous spoken into the open a...

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    Oliver Cromwell
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    Qui cessat esse melior cessat esse bonus (He who ceases to be better ceases to be good)

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    C. S. Lewis
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    An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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    Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone
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    Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

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    Benjamin Zander
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    Goals can be energizing—when you win. But a vision is more powerful than a goal. A vision is enlivening, it’s spirit-giving, it’s the guiding force behind all great human endeavors. Vision is about sh...

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    John Mark Comer
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    Advertising is literally an attempt to monetize our restlessness.

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    James Clear
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    Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is...

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    Wendell Berry
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    There is no denying that competitiveness is part of the life both of an individual and a community, or that, within limits, it is a useful and necessary part…But it is equally obvious that no individu...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.
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