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Every year my family plays Scrabble on Christmas Day. The score book goes back about a decade. Until 2016 my sister was ruling champion.

Enough was enough. I installed a Scrabble game on my phone. Played every day and took the crown at our next Christmas Scrabble game. The win thoroughly surprised everyone.

That year I had read Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset. Which the Scrabble win nicely illustrated.

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How's your sister? So many years of winning might make your sister incorporate being a scrable champion as a part of her identity. And nobody feels good after part of their identity gets shattered.

Yeah, any kid who owned the only Sega Genesis in a friend group knows practicing Street Fighter too much will just mean no-one wants to play it with you anymore.

Same goes for memorizing useful-in-Scrabble words that occur on Scrabble boards 100x more than they do anywhere else.

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