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- From: kprashan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (hyderabadi)
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- Subject: Re: Smart kids
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 00:35:54 GMT
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- > In article <1993Jan13.155128.4753@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- > >:In a thread that was discussing the value of sports and other extra-curricular
- > >:activities,
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- > >Please explain to me how sports can teach him what is necessary to
- > >get a job and support himself after he finishes school? There are
- > >really very few professional athletes, and it is NOT a lifelong
- > >career.
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- Yes.. sports is a career for very few people in this world. But playing
- and participating in sports (especially team sports) teaches kids things
- that are helpful in tougher things down the road. When you play in team
- sports you win some and lose some. When you lose, its not always your fault,
- & when you win, its not always because of you. It teaches you to persist,
- win as a team, and accept the fact you don't always get what you want
- (i.e. win). It teaches you how to handle situations when you don't
- get what you want (lose). It teaches you how to lose.
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- I still remember the days when I
- played ball in the streets as a kid. At first, I used to be devastated
- when I (and my team) lost. But then, you learn, you get another shot the
- next day. You have to take the disappointments and as they come.
- Sports is a 'meaningless' activity that prepares you for the real world.
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