I truly believe that children need to be apart of some competitive team growing up. Personally, by being on different teams, whether it was Odyssey of the Mind in elementary school or sports team throughout school, there was potential to learn many different lessons. And I learned my lessons. And, often times it was the coaches who provided these lessons.
"Be a team." "Pass the ball to the open person, don't be selfish." "You will have to work together to get your desired results." "Don't be late, or you are running laps."
By participating in teams at such a young age, and learning how to interact with people who are different from you is a challenge. However, for the rest of your life you are going to be challenged by a team. In school, you are put into groups for projects. In work, you work within a group or department to get things done. Your coach becomes your teacher, and your boss by instructing you on what to do. Basically, the team culture is all around. It is the way we operate businesses.
But who are these people who are teaching us our life lessons at a young age? Who are these people who are telling us how to act, how to be? Who are these people who are teaching us work ethic? Often times, children will admire their coaches. Their coaches can do no wrong.
Over the course of my experiences with coaches, I have come to find that coaches do indeed do wrong. They are not doing wrong in the gym, but in their personal lives. They strive to teach us how to be, how to act, and how to live, yet they seem to have not figured it out yet. It is devastating to know that people you spend so much time with, and look up to are scumbags. People who told you not to steal, go and steal. People who tell you that you need to trust one another, go and break that trust.
I am not really sure where I was going with this blog post....so I will have to finish it later.
We've all seen that. Paaaathetic!
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