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Old May 8, 2012, 07:28 AM
Zunaid Zunaid is offline
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Originally Posted by AsifTheManRahman
The role model thing - any 18/19 year old is old enough to realize the importance of hard work. Anyone who isn't as talented as Shakib should know he has to work hard to get to the top and if he thinks otherwise just because Shakib doesn't train, then he's got the brain of a 4 year old and doesn't deserve to play.

If you have a role model, you should pick up what he does best, not what he does worst. Even better, be your own role model if you can. If you can't tell good and bad apart when you're 19, you might as well stay away from professional sport. Let's stop treating guys like Asif and Anamul like kids.

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The problem is that we even treat mid 20s like kids let alone guys the age Anamul and Asif. We treat them like kid and they act like kids. When the going gets tough, they go home crying to momma, or to someone else. Remember when McInnes tried to bring in modern training methods and the kids actually had to work - there was such a hue and cry , like a storm in a ice water bucket, but that went away as his charges started delivering and they are still delivering today.

And wasn't there that incident where some football players were refusing to train because the coach was working them too hard? Guess what your football ranking is today?

We should pandering. We should stop being complacent. We should stop passing the buck. We should be responsible for out own fate and work on changing and improving it.

I recommend everyone read the book 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell.

His basic premise: The key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. The 10K number may be an arbitrarily chosen large number, but the essence of the book is - practice, practice, practice.

They can all play at Carnegie Hall.
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