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Were the watching animals spectators, or were they complicit?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is built around ten unflinching questions that excavate the assumptions hidden inside the story — and inside every race we've been shaped to run. The \"gold standards\" we never agreed to. The competitions that promise worth and deliver exhaustion. The systems that reward conformity over clarity. The victories that leave us emptier than we started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Race to Win is for anyone tired of running someone else's race, anyone who has won and wondered why it didn't feel like winning, anyone who suspects that the way we measure worth is broken — and is ready to do the harder, holier work of refusing the forest's terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a book about how to run faster. 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