- JOHN MACKEY

• Most of us learn to base our self-worth on comparisons and competition. We think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing—if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose. Life becomes a zero-sum game. We all play the game, but how much fun is it really?

• Win-win sees life as a

• People sometimes view membership in social groups as being zero-sum: belonging to one social group excludes you from being a member of a different group.
• People sometimes view gender hierarchies in the workplace as being zero-sum, which can cause them to be more opposed...

To reduce the degree to which you experience the zero-sum bias, you need to identify cases where you assume that a certain situation is zero-sum, and then assess the situation rationally in order to identify whether it is actually zero-sum, which you can do, for example, by asking yours...