Croom-How Playing Sports Year-Round increases success by Jasper Croom

(Developing Resilience 422)

jaspercroom — 2025-09-25 14:20:53 UTC

“Seeing is believing; start acting like a more resilient person, and, eventually, you also will start to believe it.”

(Duckworth 37)

jaspercroom — 2025-09-25 14:21:38 UTC

“Accomplished swimmers almost invariably had parents who were interested in the sport and earned enough money to pay for coaching, travel to swim meets, and not the least important: access to a pool.”

(Duckworth 50)

jaspercroom — 2025-09-25 14:22:19 UTC

“Even more than the effort a gritty person puts in on a single day, what matters is that they wake up the next day, and the next, ready to get on that treadmill and keep going.”

(Prasad 1-4)

jaspercroom — 2025-09-25 14:23:19 UTC

When times are hard, you might stop for a bit,
But it's not over until the moment you quit.
On a river's bridge, failures are the planks;
Take one step at a time until you reach its banks.

(Dickenson 1-4)

jaspercroom — 2025-09-25 14:33:29 UTC

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

Connection

jaspercroom — 2025-09-29 17:50:15 UTC

When people fail, they will either give up or try again even harder, and those who are successful will try even harder.

What fear of failing does to someone

jaspercroom — 2025-09-29 17:51:33 UTC

Connection

jaspercroom — 2025-09-29 17:53:07 UTC

There is a certain mentality that those who are successful have. It includes the traits of grit and perserverence.

There are minimums to being successful

jaspercroom — 2025-09-29 17:54:08 UTC

(Rowa 40)

jaspercroom — 2025-10-01 13:34:13 UTC

“The fear of failing at something exists on a continuum of severity... When this fear is mild, people can often persevere and continue to work toward their goals. However, for some people this fear becomes so severe that they will not even try something."