You cannot have grown up in these United States and gone through junior high school (now "middle school") without hearing the "There's no 'I' in TEAM" speech. Gym teachers sign an oath that they will impart that mandatory wisdom/torture on each and every skinny-legged kid who has a pulse and is therefore doomed to learn lifelong skills, like rope climbing. It is cliche No. 1 in the "How to Shape Our Youth" playbook (No. 2 being the mathematically impossible "Give it 110%"). The logic here is that the team lives and dies as a group and that no one member is more important than the whole.
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