Stevemagness

Are youth sports broken? Almost certainly.It's easy to rail against the craziness of youth sports parents. I've done so in the past, and a lot of it is deserved. But in a strange way, given our current climate, parents are making the rational decision to

In many ways, coaches are a dying breed. No, the profession isn't going away. It's that, in a world filled with specialists, coaches are among the last of the master generalists. We have to wear dozens of hats to do the job well: teacher, counselor, thera

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."I can't stop thinking about this quote from Dolly Parton. It's so simple, yet underneath it provides for a way of living life, which defined Dolly, and may be one of the reasons she was universally loved. The qu

On social media there are these videos that rack up millions of views with people transfixed by what they're watching. With comments flooding in on what they're seeing. It's a video from some random high school in the 2000s.There are no phones, no perform

"Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes…You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition. If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights

When parents lose their minds in youth sports, we often ascribe it to the parent living vicariously through their kid, trying to gain status through their child's performance or to relive their glory days. While that's certainly a driver, it is not the on

Exercise is the number one thing you can do to improve your long-term physical and cognitive health. The physical benefits are well documented, but it also comes with an array of cognitive benefits as well. It improves focus, creativity, problem-solving,

We've moved life from the backstage to the front. We're all performing for someone.Some of us on social media, others as our workplace or even AI monitors us. It's now normal to be constantly judged, evaluated, and scored.The obvious one is social media,

The state of reading is depressing.Consider the following:Less than 50% of US adults read a book of any kind in 2022.Share of Americans who read for pleasure on any given day: 28% (2004) 16% (2023).The share of 13-year-olds who "rarely or never" read for

On the evening of May 16, 2015, two men stood three thousand feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley about to jump off. Dean Potter was forty-three, the most famous climber of his generation. Graham Hunt was twenty-nine, his protégé and, increasingly, his