Matthew McConaughey Trashes Participation Trophies: ‘We Want Everyone to Feel Really Great’

Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey denounced the idea of participation trophies, believing that they undercut genuine achievement.

The actor revealed his thoughts on modern society’s willingness to hand out awards and even raise GPAs above a 4.0 during an interview  with the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast.

“I’m not into extra credit. I don’t like 4.2 GPAs,” he said. “That tells me, like, what happened? Then we’re not giving the right tests. If 4.0 was the pinnacle, that means not many people should be getting it, if anybody.”

“So now we’re getting 4.2s, 4.4s,” he added. “That tells me we’ve overleveraged the original task, or we’ve added amnesty or too many places to not have the real competence and merit at the task that you’re supposed