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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Listening to a lot of olympic athletes' back stories, I am struck by the number of athletes who knew by age 9 that is what they were born to do. The high jumper from Louisiana was the best, jumping with a stick by age 5. .
How many non athlete's readers here knew what they wanted to do the rest of their life as a pursuit by the age of 9?
for me I was trying to figure out how to get ready for school on time by the age of 9, never mind see a sport on television or elsewhere and want to do that the rest of my life, or be in the olympics.
anyone have this type of work/sports epiphany?
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No epiphany for me. I have had several career paths, some successful, others less so.
I do have sympathy for those age 9 athletes who become Olympians. Now they are in their teens or twenties, with nowhere to go. Maybe they will figure out round two precociously by the time they are 29.