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“It was more about really being the best I could be, taking risks, working hard,” Brent says. “The focus wasn’t always on winning, it was on doing things the right way.”
“My mom told me stories about some of the swimming practices that were just the most brutal things,” Brent says. “Not many people could get through them, but she did, which helps me.”
It taught Mike about the unpredictability of sports, how any athlete can be defined by one moment instead of an entire career, no matter how unfair that may be.
Just as he learned about how to deal with the rough patches from Mike’s miscue, Shirley’s advice has helped him fight through the team’s early-season struggles as well.
The article contends that spoiled, “affluent” students should not downplay their wealthy origins because maintaining a “veneer of more frugal circumstances” is “insulting.” Instead, in McAuley’s idyllic fantasy, wealthy students should...