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When ego turns friendly games into conflicts

I rage-quit a game of Scrabble tonight because my wife played a word I'd never heard of and I accused her of making it up, but she was right and I was just embarrassed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Pride has a way of transforming moments of potential learning into battles where everyone loses.

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