[thehappypm]

Sports can sometimes show a lot of character, in a different way than things like band or school play do. Think about the amount of hard training it takes to become, for example, a state champion distance runner, or wrestler. It takes more internal strength to run 10 miles every day than to practice the flute.

[pdpi]

> It takes more internal strength to run 10 miles every day than to practice the flute.

That’s utter nonsense. It takes more physical prowess to run 10 miles, sure, but there’s nothing mentally easy about playing the same damn four bars until you have the passage completely locked in, to put in the effort to go from ok to good to excellent.

[thehappypm]

I won’t argue that both take mental prowess. But there’s a difference between overcoming physical hardship and mental tedium.

[brnt]

Ah. "Working hard breeds character". I wish my parents hadn't been such blind working class people to understand that that's merely the way to stay working class.