PrepTest 88, Section 3, Question 17
Advice columnist: Parents should not encourage their children to place great value on outdoing others. Being motivated in this way not only fosters resentment, it makes one less happy because it gives one a desire for achievement that is difficult to satisfy.
Advice columnist: Parents should not encourage their children to place great value on outdoing others. Being motivated in this way not only fosters resentment, it makes one less happy because it gives one a desire for achievement that is difficult to satisfy.
Advice columnist: Parents should not encourage their children to place great value on outdoing others. Being motivated in this way not only fosters resentment, it makes one less happy because it gives one a desire for achievement that is difficult to satisfy.
Advice columnist: Parents should not encourage their children to place great value on outdoing others. Being motivated in this way not only fosters resentment, it makes one less happy because it gives one a desire for achievement that is difficult to satisfy.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the reasoning in the advice columnist's argument?
Parents should encourage their children to be happy about the things that they do well.
Parents should try to ensure that their children have at least some desires that are easy to satisfy.
One should never encourage a person to acquire a trait if having the trait would make that person less happy.
Parents should do everything they can to ensure that their children have significant achievements.
How much one achieves relative to one's own potential is just as important as how much one achieves relative to others.
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