Basketball Cheers

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” Leonardo da Vinci “History books are full of stories of gifted persons whose talents were overlooked by a procession of people until someone believed in them. Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven years old before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had “no good ideas.” Werner von Braun failed ninth-grade algebra. Haydn gave up on making a musician of Beethoven, who seemed a slow and plodding man with no apparent talent. There is a lesson in such stories: Different people develop at different rates, and the best motivators are always on the lookout for hidden capabilities. “Alan McGinnis–Bringing out the Best in People During the summer of 2001 my good friend, Brendan, very patiently taught me how to juggle. I had always wanted to learn, but when it came to juggling I was a neuromuscular idiot. I became frustrated too quickly. I wanted …

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