Age 12

@fmf said
@Kevin-Eleven

Age 12

At the age of 12, I was the junior county champion [Hertfordshire] at judo in my weight class and one of the three or four best judoka of my age in Britain and I was well known in judo circles. I'd been involved in the sport for four years at that point, and six years later it all came to an abrupt end when I realized that the university ju ...[text shortened]... o team training sessions were going to interfere with my plans to get drunk and play pool and darts.

That was a joke you were making right?

-VR

@very-rusty said
That was a joke you were making right?

No. It was a snapshot of the me at the age of 12 with a rueful contrast to what happened at the age of 18.

@fmf said
No. It was a snapshot of the me at the age of 12 with a rueful contrast to what happened at the age of 18.

“What happened?”

That’s a strangely passive and detached stance you’re taking about your life at 18.

Would you also use that phrase to describe your life at 12?

@pb1022 said
“What happened?”

That’s a strangely passive and detached stance you’re taking about your life at 18.

It's just a turn of phrase.

@divegeester said
By the time a man (or woman) gets to be 60 plus years old I would think they should be taking at least 90% responsibility for how they have turned out. Not doing so encourages victim-think and disinhibition. Something we see from you on occasion Keven Eleven.

I get what you are saying and I do not completely disagree.

However, at time of posting the OP I was thinking more along the lines of not taking credit for:

- being born in the first place
- continuing to be alive for 62+ years despite everything
- whatever inherent traits I might have been born with
- whatever beneficial environmental influences might have helped shape me

And even if we are just transitory dust devils, I'd agree that we do have as much choice as we do.

It's strange that you seem to both disparage victims and favor inhibition (except, of course, when you yourself are "disinhibited" ).

P.S. -- No matter what 50-page management chapterbooks you are capable of reading, team-building through vitriol is not necessarily a winning strategy. 😉