It's really quite shocking when you realize how much of our culture is shaped around the ideals of competition.

Probably also no small part of the reason that we default to either/or thinking so much of the time. twitter.com/gnrosenberg/st…

No Contest by @alfiekohn opened my eyes to this: amazon.com/No-Contest-Cas…

He quotes Morton Deutsch on the competitive approach to (someone must "win") vs a cooperative approach to approach: "conflicting interests as a mutual problem to be solved by collaborative effort."