3/26/2023 0 Comments Coach lessons on the game of life![]() ![]() It was a habit from his day as a player, kept all the way to coaching, punishing himself in quietness, to redeem for noncommittal adolescents. He’d walk home miles through bad neighborhoods in murder capital city, when his team lost. Lewis put it the best– Fitz could reach in and pull a white rabbit out of an empty hat, and the whole experience means a lot more to the white rabbit than to the magician .īefore you think Fitz was some sadistic madness torturing high school students, the book sprinkles enough bits about Fitz to clarify that intensity is even stronger on himself. ![]() He changed from a trouble-maker who frequented the headmaster’s office for confronting teachers, to a respectful one that the teachers genuinely love. Then - Lewis described that moment of being hit and losing consciousness as the happy moment of his life, and the first thing he said to his family at the doctor’s office, was he’ll never join vacations. Still feeling guilty for falling short of intense devotion, Lewis was accidentally hit by a ball which broke his nose upon returning to the field. Lewis himself was grilled by Fitz when he missed one week of committed practice when his parents took the family to vacation during Mardi Gras. ![]() Fitz had an intensity that tolerated nothing less than devoting all to a purpose – team members who abandoned practices for parties were disciplined, and never wanted beach vacations for decades. He separated the superfluous fun of “likes baseball, wants to win”, from applying your whole self like it’s life-and-death, from knowing that life is not a series of purchase decisions to bail out of whatever trouble you are in (for this group of adolescents in expensive school, bail using parents’ money). Fitz made baseball a purpose for adolescents, and helped them to get out of young life crises. In this short book, Lewis interspersed his own personal experience being coached by Fitz, with observations on how Fitz affected students, parents and the school. Lewis’ book let me understand, for people who practiced sports in coach Fitz’s way, such reverence for a coach is not a consumer admiring a purchased entertainment experience. I used to understand the phenomenon of people worshipping sports teams and coaches, as a general cultural disposition to enjoy the spectator experience. ![]()
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