By now many of you have heard of the incident that happened about a week ago when Texas Rangers all-star Josh Hamilton tried to score from third on a foul ball pop up near the third base dug out. As Hamilton slide home attempting to avoid the tag he broke a bone in his arm and will miss up two months of the season. How does this apply to asset building you ask? Well, after the game when asked about the play, Hamilton promptly blamed his coach in a move that was received with a good deal of scrutiny from the press and others in the sports world. In his words: As many of us know, teenagers' brains aren't necessarily wired to make great decisions and on top of that sometimes issues of personal responsibility are followed by poor choices (hence the famous response "If Johnny jumped off a bridge would you jump off too?"). What this example gives us is a very teachable moment in discussing how we respond to making mistakes. Hamilton was in no way forced to go; was he given some poor advice, probably, but the base coach did not push him off the bag. He made the decision to go himself and obviously needs to take some ownership over that. He later apologized, but still gave those working with young people something great to go on.“It was just a stupid play. I definitely shouldn’t have done it. I listened to my third base coach … The whole time I was watching the play I was listening. [He said], ‘Nobody’s at home, nobody’s at home.’ I was like, ‘Dude, I don’t want to do this. Something’s going to happen.’ But I listened to my coach.”
Here are some questions you may to ask a young person in relation to this issue or just as part of any conversation:
- What is personal responsibility?
- How often are you given advice that you think is bad for your peers/adults?
- What do you do when someone is telling you to do something that your gut tells you not to?
- What is the best way to handle a situation in which you were wrong or made a mistake?
- Why is important not to blame others for your own actions?
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