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"I said make him go left, damnit! Left!".
How does he shoot those pull-up jumpers?! I have to say, it would suck to get schooled by a guy with one arm. It's like in those P90x videos when they bring out the guy with the one leg and he's doing squats with one leg 100x that you can't do 10x with two legs...
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Soft Euro wrote: View PostI don't think so; he's probably way way more talented than me. It's not that he had one arm and no talent. The American Dream is 90% bullshit.
The one handed kid probably put in hours a day, 5-7 days a week, for a couple of years before coach gave him a chance. And then, when he tasted a little success, he really started working. Talent is over rated. Nobody wants to believe they could be great if they only had some focus and were willing to put in the effort. If you believed that, you would have to admit what a schlump you were.
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Puffer wrote: View PostRead the book "Outliers." Excellence is strongly correlated with thoughtful practice of set skills for upwards of 10,000 hours. Once you can perform specific skills without thinking, having a high basketball IQ, for instance, becomes a lot easier. Remember Jordan was cut by his high school coach. Steve Nash couldn't get a sniff from a major school. Both put in thousands of hours improving their game. Guys like you and me...we put in 30 minutes practising in a gym, then play in a pick-up game or two a week through the summer and we thing we are working on our games. No, we are just ingraining bad habits :-)
The one handed kid probably put in hours a day, 5-7 days a week, for a couple of years before coach gave him a chance. And then, when he tasted a little success, he really started working. Talent is over rated. Nobody wants to believe they could be great if they only had some focus and were willing to put in the effort. If you believed that, you would have to admit what a schlump you were.
I guess you're saying I should have practiced more and I would have been as good as Nash or Jordan because they got it all by hard work. I'm very sorry for you, but my hand-eye coördination skills pretty much suck. It's like telling the dumb kid at school he just needs to work harder to become excellent at math; it's kind of a reversal to the completely disproven tabula rasa idea.
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Soft Euro wrote: View PostNot going to read it again if you don't mind.
I guess you're saying I should have practiced more and I would have been as good as Nash or Jordan because they got it all by hard work. I'm very sorry for you, but my hand-eye coördination skills pretty much suck. It's like telling the dumb kid at school he just needs to work harder to become excellent at math; it's kind of a reversal to the completely disproven tabula rasa idea.“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― John Wooden
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Soft Euro wrote: View Post...I guess you're saying I should have practiced more and I would have been as good as Nash or Jordan because they got it all by hard work....
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Puffer wrote: View PostYou don't have to agree, but you also don't have to put words in my mouth. Talent certainly does exist. If you practice 10,000 hours and Jordan practices 10,000 hours Jordan will make you look stupid. But you, post 10,000 hours of practice, would make most of your friends or high school team mates look stupid. Hard work almost always trumps talent, unless the talented person practices hard as well.
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