I would say the pushing of students to take performance enhancing drugs is a direct consequence of emphasizing competition rather than learning. Having met many of these people, it&#x27;s not that they are incomplete or flawed human beings-- it&#x27;s that they are largely foreign to themselves because their only mode is to &quot;achieve&quot; resume items, even if they flatly deny that is their life&#x27;s purpose when questioned.<p>The biggest strengths that &quot;elite&quot; over-achievers typically have are a complete lack of existential pause and a rejection of non-practical introspection.