Saturday, September 15, 2012

The College Transition ~ What Writers Can Learn From Athletes ~ Playmaker~ Comp131


                After a couple of seconds the ever wonderful internet gave me a definition for a playmaker, “An offensive player, as in basketball or hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score” (Dictionalry.com).  
                There are a couple of things to note about this definition. First is that a playmaker not someone who just watches out for themselves. They make and act on destines to help the team score. They are not a ball hog, ore the show of. The team is first and they are second. When It comes to academics it’s like pouting learning before grades. While getting good grades is important, the real goal of and education is just that, to become educated.
The second thing I want to take not of is that they execute play. They are not locked away in some library coming up with strategies. They are in the game giving it there all. Making decisions and then acting on them, is another ting the current student can learn from. Just deciding you want an A isn’t enough. Getting an A takes study time and hard work. There is a Japanese Proverb that says “Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare” (http://veryrandom...) Action without strategy is chaos and vice versa. For success in any thing you do you cannot separate these two key elements.
This is especially important for righter. You cannot wright a well thought out coherent paper with out for thought, and you will never wright any ting if all you do is think. Your team is the people you are writing for. Your job as a play maker is to inspire them to make choices that will not just change but improve their lives, but you also half to take action yourself. If you wright about how smoking kills people, but you are a chain smoker, is any one going to lesson to what you half to say.


http://veryrandomstreams.blogspot.com/2010/06/100-great-quotes-about-motivation-and.html

1 comment:

  1. Rose,

    Thanks for this great start to your blog! Be sure to include examples from your own experiences here at TLU, and don't forget to run your work through Word to clean it up. I look forward to seeing what a musician will do with mental toughness.

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