Participation Trophies Had Zero Effect On Me

I knew they weren’t real trophies.

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I was listening to an entrepreneurship podcast the other day where the host, a man in his 50s, explained that he doesn’t like to hire Millennials to work at his company because apparently, they’re all “too entitled,” since they received participation trophies as kids. His argument was that people who grew up in that generation…