Category: Skills
BEING TRADED
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must end one life before we can enter into another.” – Anatole France, French Poet/Journalist/Novelist Departure is forced, volunteered and unforeseen. Change exhilarates while it alienates. But change isn’t change if you haven’t …
THE UNSEEN HULK
It is possible to exude things, to project onto others a certain sense or feeling. I didn’t think it real until recently though when I paid attention to how quickly and profusely people apologize to me. Students, players that I coach and even other adults commonly avoid eye contact when they have news they think …
THE BUSINESS OF CHANGE
Change is a skill. People get paid to manage it and better still to manage how other people manage it. And the reason you can earn a check managing change is because it’s hard. Derek Fisher wears a #37 on his jersey in Oklahoma City and I’d bet it’s indicative of his age. Ain’t that …
Mysterious King James
Just when the King appears superhuman, he begins to commit the most glaring of faux pas. Six for seven from beyond the arc and while warding off the mythical Mamba himself. What beast shoots a step back 3-pointer from beyond 25-feet only to watch it splash down like a space capsule plummeting back to Earth …