What Sports Does To Your Mind

One of the reasons everyone should watch and participate in sports is that it demonstrates why one must always cultivate hope. Why one should never give up. If you keep your willpower intact and keep pushing beyond your limits, further than you believe you are capable of, you can make history. You can reach a point you never thought possible. This is what sports does to the mind. It reprograms it into believing in the impossible. When you are taking a leap of faith, you need immense belief, to the point of delusion. You refuse to entertain any and all negative thoughts. And so you need to know what it is like to visualise only success, what it is like to push yourself past the boundaries of your comfort zone. What it is like to conquer the extremities. Most people have grown too rational and therefore too soft. The competitive spirit has vanished from their hearts. For them it is acceptable to lose and insignificant to win. They may not be entirely wrong, but winning is not an event.…