Positive Aspects Of A Successful Team

Throughout my short eighteen years of life thus far, I have had a great privilege of playing on all sorts of teams. Consequently, because of that I learned an endless amount of the differences between a successful team and a team who more or less struggles. However, most of my team's success occurred when I was younger. Which was great because I developed positive attitudes towards sports along with all my teammates and we all just formed into a big unit, and we pretty much were a dominant machine in virtually every sport. Laughter was always the main part through all of our success. We were all best friends in second grade when it all started out and our coaches were our friends as well and had total respect from us. At a younger age I felt as everything was easier though, everything was simple, have fun. No complications with society, social media, doing what …show more content…
Which really sucked from my point of view because I saw my closest friends starting to hate the game that they all loved back when we were kids. I realize I may be getting a little off topic but this all ties back into teamwork because when things are positive and carefree my teams have been more successful, but when something small goes wrong it can explode and ruin all the teamwork that was once there just disappears. Julia Wood (2009) “These experiences influence people” (p. 51). I can see that especially on my life because I have changed my values based on what I have learned. I look past little things that I might not have in high school such as what people like, or what they are into, because I’ve realized those things don’t really matter anymore. Sure they may depend on who your closer friends are but, it most definitely doesn’t just mean they are a bad person. Julia Wood (2009) “when applying standpoint theory the highlights are definitely understandings, feelings, thoughts, and actions” (p.