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Anon reflects on his life (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz to c/greentext@lemmy.ml

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's take the NHL for example. These are people at the top of their game. Then a few times in a decade, a 16-17 years old come in and is already better than the vast majority of all the NHL players.

In the chess world, some 8-9 years old beat some GrandMasters. Imagine being an old fart that studied hard to get the GM title, get obliterated by a kid.

It happens all the time.

Let's transpose that to a new activity you've never done before, while that young kid has done it for a year a more already. For sure, you will get your ass handed to you, unless you are a natural talent of your generation.

I guess that rant is about this: if it's not your livelihood, then who cares as long as you enjoy the activity and don't hurt anyone (on purpose in case of contact/fighting sports)

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Totally. There's loooots of room in any activity to become great at it at any stage in life, without being anywhere near world-class. Or be terrible at it and still have fun. That's also good.