Trey Willis's Blog, page 6

Winning isn’t everything

This will be an unpopular statement: it is not fair to the winners to stop keeping score and give everyone a trophy. They say winning isn’t everything, and they are right, but it issomething,and it’s also important for a litany of reasons.We need to learn how to lose, and to lose with dignity, but, just as importantly, we need to know what winning feels like, and learn how to win gracefully. These translate into essential, real world skills later in life. We are robbing our children of vital...

Snowflakes

We are not unique. We are not special snowflakes. We are merely one of many people who are very similar to each other. This is not to say that everyone is the same. There are types of people, and those types have a high degree of variance. Within those groups, there are people who have unique qualities, but this does not make them unique. If we must observe small and inconsequential details to find uniqueness in a person, then they are not unique. This is in no way a bad thing, but telling ch...