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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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The Purpose of Team Sports Is Not to Collect Sucker Trophies

The purpose of a socker team is not to collect sucker trophies. The school is not suffering from a trophy shortage. Spending time and money to push kids who are six or 12 or 15 years old to win at a game where they are playing against other kids who need to lose for them to win teaches them nothing much. If you're a hero cause you scored a goal, and you're a goat because you n't, that's not what team work is. So we have this massive opportunity to use physical interaction to teach kids things like co operation and strategy and insight. But no, keeping track of trophies makes no sense whatever. I think that the purpose of sports is to teach people

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