Robert Caldwell provides some insight into the distinction between the way we perceive player and personal development at SoccerGenius and the dominant sportsworld perspective...Good food for thought! Robert says There are two ways of claiming strength: the competitive and the artistic. The competitive forms the world into two camps, weak and strong, beautiful and ugly, good and bad, lovable and unlovable, winner and loser. In this perspective, we are strong as we see others as weak, we are good as we see others as bad, etc. This is the path which sustains not-forgiving, for to forgive would be to weaken ourselves and become vulnerable to others. The other route is that of the artistic, the way which pays attention to ones inner experience of the world and sees all of lifes events as fluid possibilities for creativity. The world is perceived as raw material for shaping our lives, and we approach the engagements of the day not in a dichotomy model (We win means they lose.), but in a expectation for flow and co-creation. This is a world in which we are learning to include all our experience within our ego boundaries. This is world that is our oyster, for there is nothing that cannot, in some sense, be assimilated, guaranteed, and made into life-contributing experiences. This is a world in which we are growing in the confidence of being loved, belonging within the human community, and knowing that we can impact our world in ways that give us joy even as we enliven others. This world in which we wish to continue to create has no categories of winners and losers, but only of those who stay the trip in style.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:58:41 +0000
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