Your school has a strong football tradition, but your team is often just short of its objective (say, OSU can not beat Michican, or vice versa), what are you going to do about your otherwise excellent coach? should you give him one more year, or 3 more years to show what he can do? or just fire him and start over again?
This is actually the optimal stopping problem. When do you fire an employee? when do you fire a coach? when do you get out of a relationship? when do you fire your congressman/senator (change your vote)? … my sense is that people are waiting too long, on average, to make the tough decision.
A coach should be replaced if he can not deliver the results in 3 years, period.
Tags: Relationship · Emotion and Logic · General
It is amazing that what parents are doing for their kids, or, what they are having their kids do. They drive their kids from one event to the other, one activity to another, ballet, piano, tennis, soccer, football, chess, …
It is really not the most efficient way to educate kids. They should learn to pick one thing that they strive to become expert (be it piano or soccer), practice very hard and develop discipline. The rest should just be playing, parents should not allow kids to do many things. If we as parents let kids develop the habit of doing many things but not good at any, it is going to have a negative impact on kids’ character. Of course, it also wastes a lot of parents’ time.
At most, I think parents should pick one in sports and one in art/music as extracurricular activities for kids before highschool.
Tags: Kids
