The study continues regarding teen smoking:
"The significance of the smoking personality, I think, cannot be overstated. If you bundle all of these extroverts' traits together - defiance, sexual precocity, honesty, impulsiveness, indifference to the opinion of others, sensation seeking - you come up with an almost perfect definition of the kind of person many adolescents are drawn to.
Smoking was never cool. Smokers are cool." -- Malcolm Gladwell
This gets me thinking... how would this apply to being a YMCA middle school basketball coach?
Honesty... indifference to the opinion of others... those are traits of a person who's confident in who they are, and doesn't waste time trying to get others to like them, or trying to convince others why their way is the best. The deal is to minimize the talk, get to the action, and get results.
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