• Batman@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    A Related family has 600k take home. their kids go to athletic camps with trainers from professional teams in the off season. then go back to school and expectedly run circles around their peers. the difference in skill is always attributed to their work ethic or genetics…

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      13 days ago

      I mean literally you said work ethic. If they’re out in the offseason working out whether they’re being paid to or not and whether people are training them. That literally is the definition of work ethic. Kind of an idiotic statement to make for that. It’s the exact same thing as if somebody were to train as hard as they could in the off-season and continually train and weight lift and do everything else and follow everything that’s available out there. Only difference is they have somebody right there in front of them helping them make decisions.

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            13 days ago

            Self guided study is per definition more work ethic than a tutor brought in by the parents/guardians.

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              Not really. Work ethic by definition is simply how hard you work at whatever you’re doing. If somebody’s working every single day for hours a day whether it’s with somebody or without somebody that is literally the fucking definition of work ethic quit trying to make fucking excuses because you couldn’t fucking succeed at something.