Millennials Unharmed From Trophies

In the Cardinal Points Article Millennials Unharmed from Trophies by Steve Levy the author writes children should not be given a trophy for nothing, however participating and putting in the work isn’t nothing. I believe that children are rewarded too much without any effort put in, a trophy should be something someone looks back on the rest of their life to remember the effort they put in, not just another participation trophy.
In the article, the study conducted by the Stanford professor Carol Dweck perfectly shows why we should be handing out participation trophies to children. The study very clearly shows that by giving young children an “easy win” that they lack the motivation to push themselves in the future. When I was younger I played