The winner takes it all | Libby Brooks

Popular culture tells us that success is within our grasp if we only try hard enough. But talent-show meritocracy doesn't workEarly educational psychologists cautioned parents against allowing their offspring to daydream, concerned that such aimless mental maundering could result in neurosis. Not so Piers Morgan, no Piaget but nonetheless an expert in the semantics of contemporary culture. Hosting I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story, a musical extravaganza charting the singer's phenomenal j...

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