Roger Davis

Curiosita- An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning Sounds about right-learning to trade draw cook parent etc

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Norway consistently wins the most medals at the Winter Olympic Games, with a population of just 5.6 million people.

A big part of their success is how they treat youth sports—and it’s the opposite of what we do in the US. Here’s what we can learn from Norway:

1. Scorekeeping:

In the US: Youth sports tend to be hyper competitive even at early ages. Leagues almost always keep score.

In Norway: Scorekeeping isn’t even allowed until age 13.

Removing winners and losers keeps the focus on the process not outcomes. It keeps kids engaged longer because it minimizes pressure (and tears) and maximizes fun, learning, and growth. The goal isn’t to win a third grade championship. It’s to love sport and keep playing.

2. Trophies:

In the US: If you give everyone a trophy, you’re creating snowflakes who will never gain a competitive edge.

In Norway: Whenever trophies are awarded, they are handed out to everyone.

If getting a trophy makes young kids feel good, we should give them trophies. Maybe they’ll come back and play again next year!!

As for the creation of snowflakes with no competitive edge—Norway’s athletes are tough as nails and all they do is win.

3. Prioritizing Fun:

In the US: Far too often, the goal is to win.

In Norway: The national philosophy is “joy of sport.”

Youth sports in the US are driven by adults, ego, and money. Youth sports in Norway are driven by fun.

Only half of kids in the US participate in sports. The number one reason they drop out: because they aren’t having fun anymore. In Norway, 93% of kids participate in youth sports. Fun is the foremost goal.

4. Playing Multiple Sports:

In the US: There’s pressure to specialize early and play your best sport year round.

In Norway: Try as many sports as you can before specializing as late as college.

Norway encourages kids to try all types of sport. This reduces injury and burnout and increases all-around athleticism. It also helps promotes match quality, or finding the sport you are best suited for as your body develops, which is impossible if you commit to a single sport too early.

5. Affordability

In the US: There is increasingly a pay-to-play model with high fees for leagues, equipment, and travel. This excludes many kids from playing.

In Norway: It’s a national priority to keep youth sports affordable and therefore accessible for all.

Kids aren’t priced out, which creates opportunities for everyone to participate (and develop into athletes), regardless of their parents’ income level.

We could learn a lot from Norway:

In the US, 70% of kids drop out of youth sports by age 13. This not only diminishes an elite-athlete pipeline, but it also destroys an opportunity for healthy habits and all the character lessons kids can learn from sport.

In Norway, lifelong participation in sport is the norm. The goal isn’t to have the best 9U team. It’s to develop the best athletes. Those are two very different things. And Norway has the gold medals to prove it.

[Blair Paddy Mayne @blair_mayne]

The campaign for this #BlairDeservesHisVC is on the move!

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452.

Let's take a look at 15 of his most famous works.

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1. Mona Lisa-
Leonardo's masterpiece portrait and the enigmatic smile that captured the heart of the world.

[Michael Covel @Covel]

“Plain Truths about Stock Speculation” (1887).

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

The 6 year freeze to income tax and NI thresholds really is a staggeringly big tax increase. It’s a key part of why taxes are rising to highest level ever.

That such tax rises are needed reflects v high interest payments, poor growth and increasing spending pressures.

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Oh this is just gorgeous. Fab work @ChetCunago and some great resources and ideas on the @SheffSwiftNet website https://t.co/FkaBapzeet

[Gavin Mortimer @PhoneyMajor]

1/6
On this day in 1944 Sergeant Gerald Davis of 2SAS was given a choice by the Gestapo:
Either he talked or he died
He was left alone for 10 minutes to make his decision.
Davis lies in Moussey cemetery, eastern France.
The inscription on his headstone reads: ‘Loyal Unto Death’.

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

After returning from northern France, the lack of biodiversity/insect life in the UK is shocking. I can’t possibly convey the difference in one tweet so here’s a 🧵of just how nature depleted we are, even though the landscape, climate & species (historically) are almost identical

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Can't believe what I'm hearing. Swift bricks aren't even controversial. They're a cheap, easy way to restore our dwindling bird population. Yet neither Tory Minister, nor Lab opposition, will commit to make them mandatory. What planet are they on?? @Natures_Voice @WriterHannahBT

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

"UK residential property prices fall by 31% over the first half of the stress"

This quote is from the @bankofengland 's own "Stress Test" of effects on house prices (and the economy) if base rate reach 6%.

Published Sep 23. Reader discretion advised.

https://t.co/aV96qXu3iH

[Albert Edwards @albertedwards99]

Morons!

'Help-To-Buy' (votes) is back on the agenda in the UK despite being an idiotic economic policy. As I explained in the attached Guardian article 9 years ago it just pushes up unaffordable house prices even further and subsidises housebuilders profits...

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

My last column on #HelptoBuy and it's legacy of misery. No, we don't need more of it. https://t.co/XFE8Ugco0A

[Allan Savory @AllanRSavory]

Everyone squabbling about cattle & discussing carbon or methane, whether supporting @GeorgeMonbiot or myself, reminds me of my nanny guarding my baby son in a storm long ago https://t.co/DAdwFnGEx8

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring

[📹 Protect All Wildlife: https://t.co/rsjS56xnQ8]
[read more: https://t.co/p3YBOBXyyF]

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

Both the Left and the Right are puritanical. Both are trapped in their little thought silos. Fossilised. Closed.

The independent individual doesn't align with either. They dont get involved in groupthink because groupthink isn't thinking but mindlessly following.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Such a mystery... What could possibly be the reason? 🧐

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

Given overwhelming evidence of serious harms why has the mRNA jab not been suspended?

‘What we are dealing with are psychopathic entities that have increasing control over our lives’

‘Doctors & the public don’t know what’s happening & they don’t even know that they don’t know’

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

I think @elonmusk needs to see this. Truly extraordinary speech and allegations of cover up of mRNA jab harms by British Heart Foundation leader in UK Parliament https://t.co/uFz1JNtrOy

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

You’ll have seen a lot of charts in the past few weeks.
But this one REALLY matters.
The mortgage burden - the % we spend on our repayments - is heading for the highest level since the late 80s.
Last time it hit these levels it preceded the biggest housing crash in modern history

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

I’m left without any doubt that the mRNA product was a likely contributory factor in the sudden cardiac death of my father, Dr Kailash Chand Malhotra ( Honorary Vice President of the British Medical Association)