Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-And What We Can Do About It
by
Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Published 21 Aug 2023
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Kids sense a duty: The “encore effect” is a term coined by Gordon Flett to describe how high performers find pressure to keep repeating high performance. I think it also works well to describe the pressure on children of high earners. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Wealth is concentrated: Andy Kiersz, “MAP: Here Are The 20 ‘Super-Zips’ Where America’s Ultra-Elite Reside,” Business Insider, Dec. 9, 2013, https://www.businessinsider.com/map-americas-super-elite-live-in-these-zip-codes-2013-12. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “I would cry in the hospital”: Meghana Kakubal, Lila Shroff, and Soraya Marashi, “Pressure, Insomnia and Hospitalization: The New Normal for Students Applying to College,” KUOW RadioActive, Apr. 3, 2019, https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-students-go-through-to-get-into-college.