pupil3142 wrote:
a e housman, an underated genius.
I agree, but I've never much cared for the sentiment he expressed in "To an Athlete Dying Young," which seems to undervalue life as an athlete who has passed his peak. I much prefer something like "Terance, this is stupid stuff . . . ." Although his view of life seems rather dismal in both poems (and in many others), the latter reflects a deeper understanding of his own pessimism.
Iggy, are you losing relationships in real life with family and friends?
You might watch a documentary called The Brainwashing of My Dad.
a comment from the peanut gallery wrote:
Iggy, are you losing relationships in real life with family and friends?
You might watch a documentary called The Brainwashing of My Dad.
No, I coach a group of masters runners three times a week. Last week visited my old boss, and a former 3:51 miler that owns a runnig store. Good friends with all my neighbors.At 5:00 am this morning took my daughter and son-in-law to the airport, then at noon took my wife (of 46.90 years) to a doctors appointment.
trhyjet wrote:
Harambe wrote:
Just because boomers were brainwashed into thinking they had to sacrifice happiness for a "good" job in corporate America, doesn't mean the younger, smarter, and healthier generations are making the same mistakes.
You are making the same mistake of thinking you are smarter that the previous generation.
Signed: not a boomer
By every metric Millenials are smarter than previous generations.
Much higher educational attainment.
Basically no lead-poisoning from gasoline.
Flynn effect means the latest generation generally has the highest IQs.
It's just a fact and it's GOOD. You want your kids to be healthier, smarter, better prepared, etc than yourself. That's called human progress.
Oh, but young people lack something very important, it's called experience. That is why cultures over the centuries have relied on elders.
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/im-former-teacher-heres-how-your-children-are-getting-indoctrinated-leftista comment from the peanut gallery wrote:
Iggy, are you losing relationships in real life with family and friends?
You might watch a documentary called The Brainwashing of My Dad.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Oh, but young people lack something very important, it's called experience. That is why cultures over the centuries have relied on elders.
If your experience is suggesting that people who get paid to do what they love should quit, I question its utility.
Harambe wrote:
You want your kids to be healthier, smarter, better prepared, etc than yourself.
Why did your parents fail then?
Harambe wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Oh, but young people lack something very important, it's called experience. That is why cultures over the centuries have relied on elders.
If your experience is suggesting that people who get paid to do what they love should quit, I question its utility.
I don’t think my post was such a blanket suggestion. On the other hand, some people are paid to do things they love that are self destructive, or a least not optimal.
trhyjet wrote:
Harambe wrote:
You want your kids to be healthier, smarter, better prepared, etc than yourself.
Why did your parents fail then?
Found the triggered non-Millennial. Maybe us millennials can donate a few IQ points to you all after we are done saving the climate and curing all serious illness.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/im-former-teacher-heres-how-your-children-are-getting-indoctrinated-leftista comment from the peanut gallery wrote:
Iggy, are you losing relationships in real life with family and friends?
You might watch a documentary called The Brainwashing of My Dad.
LOL. The author was briefly a teacher and shares some anecdotes. He works for Heritage as an administrative assistant. Absent are any facts about widespread indoctrination in education for either the right or left.
My kids graduated HS a few years back. Among the teachers there were some great ones and a handful of duds. Teachers across the political spectrum.
This is an interesting graphic that shows bias in media. The X-axis shows political bias, but I find the Y-axis is more important (toward the top means the media outlet is more fact based and fact finding, toward the bottom means sh* t is being made up).
www.adfontesmedia.comTo me whether a media source is right versus left is less important than New Value and reliability (is it fact based?).
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Harambe wrote:
If your experience is suggesting that people who get paid to do what they love should quit, I question its utility.
I don’t think my post was such a blanket suggestion. On the other hand, some people are paid to do things they love that are self destructive, or a least not optimal.
Surely yes, some people are in self-destructive careers. Hard to argue that professional running falls under that label!
Single handedly of course.😷
Harambe wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
I don’t think my post was such a blanket suggestion. On the other hand, some people are paid to do things they love that are self destructive, or a least not optimal.
Surely yes, some people are in self-destructive careers. Hard to argue that professional running falls under that label!
Agreed. My initial post is more of a thought “when is it time to pursue other things in life.” Of course that is an individual decision in a free country.
Ca$hclay wrote:
I think you pretty much know whether you have the goods or not in this sport by your early 20s at the latest. Whether you choose to keep chasing it or not though is totally up to the individual and what they want out of life. Not everyone wants financial stability and a family. To each his own and kudos to the athlete who stays the course and sees it through.
No
The OP needs to decide what they should do. They cannot decide for themselves.
After each season, each USATF athlete should consult the Ghost of Igloi on wherever they should pursue another year of running or not.
Actually they could do worse.
Not sure what the point of your question is. Of course older professional athletes will have to move on. By the time you hit you'r mid-40's you're going to lose SERIOUS track speed, even if you're Bernie Lagat.
a comment from the peanut gallery wrote:
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/im-former-teacher-heres-how-your-children-are-getting-indoctrinated-leftistLOL. The author was briefly a teacher and shares some anecdotes. He works for Heritage as an administrative assistant. Absent are any facts about widespread indoctrination in education for either the right or left.
My kids graduated HS a few years back. Among the teachers there were some great ones and a handful of duds. Teachers across the political spectrum.
This is an interesting graphic that shows bias in media. The X-axis shows political bias, but I find the Y-axis is more important (toward the top means the media outlet is more fact based and fact finding, toward the bottom means sh* t is being made up).
www.adfontesmedia.comTo me whether a media source is right versus left is less important than New Value and reliability (is it fact based?).
You told him to watch a left-wing documentary and then complained about biased sources.
Hypocrisy wrote:You told him to watch a left-wing documentary and then complained about biased sources.
LOL. It doesn't matter what side, left or right, the brain washing is coming from. The documentary illustrated to me how some people are susceptible to non-fact based information.
If you look at the media bias chart I linked to, Fox News TV is low rated when it comes to fact based information. While there is a strong news side at Fox (see Mike Wallace), the entertainment side (Hannity, Carlson) have taken over most of the programming because it's cheaper to produce and people buy into it.
*Chris Wallace
I date myself! Mike Wallace is father of Chris who I watched for years. Iggy and I are not too far apart in age.