Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
Some of us gathered the night before. We grew up in the Bronx, went to school together, and participated in sports together. Lion, Bowser, Fruit Husk, Roy Boy, Shiver, Bug. I was “Alt” then. I would prefer Lance Kool, but Alt is the stuck name.
We talked about people who were no longer with us and played softball, soccer and hockey, sharing stories of the glorious era we were young and grew up. In an hour we spend with each other, I share my screen and post pictures of places in the old community where all of us have long disappeared.
We learned the importance of doing things in our school. We are responsible for our achievements. We have homework to do, we do it ourselves, although we sometimes call each other to get some help on a particularly difficult task. We smiled at specific teachers, they were difficult and recalled, and although they were difficult, we got some of the best lessons from them.
One lesson I learned was that when you let someone copy on a fifth grade exam, you both get caught and punished (thank you). You learn to do things yourself and be responsible for your failures at school.
But exercise is different. We learned to work together and work together to beat the common goal of another team’s bullshit. Although we marveled at the memories of the stones on the subway elevated tracks at Jerome Avenue Park and laughed at how the bugs broke in with me, continued to score goals and continued to break in, as I lay down before the goal rolled away my arms to stop it (I did block the camera), our story was to be together, play together, play together, learn together.
We have learned to lead and follow. We learn that if we want to win, each of us plays a role in the greater good. We need to be versatile. It was fun to do things together and helped us succeed.
This is a rare school teacher who can explain the importance of collaboration with a class experience. I’ve never met her or him, but I love sharing stories about these lessons often.
The story says that one day the teacher brought a lot of balloons and asked her students to blow them up and write their names in one of them. After doing so, they were told to throw the balloon into the hall where the teacher walked through and mixed.
Then give them three minutes to find the balloon with the name, but not.
The teacher then told them to pick up the balloon closest to them and bring it to the students on their name. They did the job in about 45 seconds.
The story is what the teacher said to the students: “These balloons are like happiness. When we are only looking for our own place, we won’t find it. But if we care about the happiness of others, it will eventually help us find our own happiness.”
Personally, I don’t believe what’s going on. But I believe that, like the lessons learned in sports, this is an example of how we work better when we work with others than when we work ourselves.
So leadership is a lesson about how this happens and how we motivate others to help each other better than we are personally. The winner found the way to win. They can do this because we put them at our best and succeed. They have a game plan that is not always effective, but more times.
They adapt to the changes and perseverance of the opposition. They beat the procrastination, focus on the prize and correct their mistakes.
In the Bronx, the groups among us learned to do so. We have entered the world and helped businesses grow successfully in our own business. Some of us become self-employed. Some are employees. In all cases, we bring the lessons of sport and sacrifice into the world and become winners.
The lessons of the movement we learn today are more about someone’s income, failures, and less than what we pay for success. It’s all about celebrities, but about sacrifice and perseverance.
Luck plays a big role in it, but not all. It’s all about the team you surround and their willingness to pay the price to get where everyone wants to get.
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