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Blindness of young arrogance

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"Stubbs watched some of these sessions and tried, at first, to offer me his wisdom. I had little interest."
This shows how the narrator wants little to do with any constructive comments which highlights his attitude

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"and then , when I would not listen to his instruction, he simply took to standing and watching..."
This is another example of how his attitude towards any comments are completely negative.

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This theme can be traced to almost any young good athlete as they will sometimes be very hardheaded and unwilling to listen to anything a coach has to say to them. I have seen this with football players not listening to their coach when they are supposed to run a certain play and they don't.

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" I usually did not understand them , because for me the act of hitting was not something to be tampered with or even discussed, It was magical, reflexive, purely physical act, and I hated to see someone try to reduce it to ideas or language."
This is the prime example of his young arrogance and not being able to understand or take comments. He simply just ignores the lessons because he thinks that he is perfect and does not need any lessons on it.