Sorry folks, winning matters
Inspired by this Tweet by Bill Simmons I came up with this post.
I don't have kids, nor do I play someone who has kids on TV. With the time I have on my hands not having kids, I get to read. In my reading I run into a lot of stories about children’s competitive sports being about playing the game and winning not mattering. I think this is a mistake.
Winning does matter and competing does matter. In every realm of life we compete. We compete for grades, we compete for affection and we compete for jobs. We're doing our children a disservice teaching then that the world is non-competitive. We're likely in the most competitive time period in US history and as Americans we're teaching folks to be less competitive at exactly the worst time.
Where we we competing that we didn't have to in the past?
- Political dominance with China
- Production dominance with India and China
- The Americas with Brazil
- Moral high ground with the Middle East
- Education with the world
The world long admired the US for our competitiveness. We always were able to dominate our areas through our maniacal drive to be the best. The world noticed and is beating us are the competitive game.
Push your children to be creative, win and be American. Arrogance has value.
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