Past Fellow Eve Fairbanks wrote an article about the value of consolation prizes, for the Washington Post website.  Her article details the importance of recognizing effort towards a greater goal and how society became more focused on “self-care” instead of consolation.  Eve argues that “self-care” is not true consolation, rather another goal created to return people to a competitive state once again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/24/how-losing-can-bring-an-emotional-windfall/?utm_term=.031f2e09deaf