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Monday, November 08, 2010
Skills I learned from sports
Kristi elaborates on her six: Time Management, Teamwork, Reliability, Sportsmanship, Responsibility, Confidence.
Let’s see, for me? Off the top of my head, I’ll split it into two parts: playing the sport and researching the sport.
For playing, I learned about justice and fairness (rules are the same for both sides); instant gratification (your efforts are rewarded, or punished, with little time lag); unique personalities and skills (each person brings something of his own to the table, in his own way); a new world (you can draw a clear line separating your real life from your hobby).
Researching? Critical thinking, creativity, dealing with limited evidence and uncertainty, bringing others into your world, exploring the world of others.
The only bad thing about sports is just like we see on TV: the gasbags who have all the answers drown out too many people before they drown themselves. So, I guess I also learn tolerance for those who want education, and I learn to throw the garbage to the curb.