A little while ago, there was a story in the news about a girl’s high school basketball team that won a game by nearly 100 points. I’m not sure the details, because when I searched “lopsided victory basketball,” I unearthed pages and pages of lopsided scores. They happen all the time. It’s kind of like life. Sometimes you try something and get completely throttled by other forces. The key is to learn from it and be better prepared in the future. Who thought up not keeping score in little league games? What was the intention? Winning and losing is…
Do we still believe in winning?
I was having lunch with a friend last week when we started talking about Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign. Trump’s campaign is centered on casting events as competition that America is either going to win or lose. Economically, America is either going to beat China or lose to China. In the “war on terror,” we are either going to beat Islamofascists or lose to them. And so on… In our conversation, I asked my friend the question, “Do you think Americans still believe in winning?” What I meant was, are we still a nation of competitors who…