Personal Reflective Essay: What I Learned In Sports

All of my life I have been involved in a sport or physical activity. The similarity between the sports I have learned to play and the way I was taught to learn in school are very much the same. I grew up playing softball and volleyball, which are both very detailed sports to play. With all different positions, regulations, and rules it is very much important to pay close attention while being taught how to play. It would have never been easy to learn the techniques by only watching a volleyball match or a game of softball repeatedly. It was very important for me to have a coach to physically show me all of the proper ways of doing each thing while also improving my mistakes as I made them. When it comes to academics, I am able to learn in a …show more content…
Obtaining great social skills makes it a lot easier for me to interact with individuals that I have never met before and even people who may seem to have nothing in common with me and because of this, it has taught me to have an open mind about people and to not be so quick to judge someone before I get to know them. It has also taught me that just because someone may not have the same personality or views than me doesn’t necessarily mean that I can’t learn something from them or develop new ideas (Multiple Intelligences – Assessment). Developing an interpersonal strength has made it easier for me to interact in groups such as: group projects and team learning, which is a skill that I lacked throughout high school. I was always one to enjoy doing projects on my own rather than working together and this was a result of selfishness. I wanted to be the one that was rewarded for a job well done instead of me and the other people in my group but as I have grown I have come to realize that working together has helped influence me to have an open mind about the many different people I have met and worked