winning and losing?

By Laura Jean Stypka — January 14, 2009 — In response to the Winning and Losing nudge

Most of my youth was spent in com­pet­i­tive sports.  Early on it was gym­nas­tics that took over my home­work hours.  By mid­dle school though, it finally dawned on me that I would never be in the Olympics.  A: I wasn’t that good… I mean, I was in com­pe­ti­tions that weren’t very hard and I still couldn’t get a phe­nom­e­nal score.  B: By age 11 I should have been work­ing with a per­sonal gym­nas­tics train­ing coach if I wanted to make it to the big times.  Unfor­tu­nately my par­ents did not agree that this was a wise use of their money. Read more