"One of my hot takes is that more aspiring artists should try competitive sports, because they teach you discipline, resiliency, and other traits that are invaluable in the arts but which we too often leave to the jocks."
This goes both ways. I never let them specialize me, but most kids grow up with hopelessly unrounded parents who preach equal measure of either malice or obsession with sports.
Most non sports people say they hate sports but i think they mostly hate sucking with such objective hierarchy. They would be surprised by how many kids play from 6-16, secretly hate it, but feel social or parental pressure to participate. There are a wide array of values to be learned from sports and music and the visual arts that I would argue packs more bang for your buck than disintegrated "academics" and I have been in schools every year since 1988.
Fair points! I just know how valuable the lessons of sports have been for me during the painful slog to accomplishing anything in the arts. And I see a lot of other would-be artists flounder in part because they haven't learned how to push through a lot of that pain. There are many other factors in play, but I think all of that matters
"One of my hot takes is that more aspiring artists should try competitive sports, because they teach you discipline, resiliency, and other traits that are invaluable in the arts but which we too often leave to the jocks."
This goes both ways. I never let them specialize me, but most kids grow up with hopelessly unrounded parents who preach equal measure of either malice or obsession with sports.
Most non sports people say they hate sports but i think they mostly hate sucking with such objective hierarchy. They would be surprised by how many kids play from 6-16, secretly hate it, but feel social or parental pressure to participate. There are a wide array of values to be learned from sports and music and the visual arts that I would argue packs more bang for your buck than disintegrated "academics" and I have been in schools every year since 1988.
Fair points! I just know how valuable the lessons of sports have been for me during the painful slog to accomplishing anything in the arts. And I see a lot of other would-be artists flounder in part because they haven't learned how to push through a lot of that pain. There are many other factors in play, but I think all of that matters