I hated dodgeball.  I quit before I even showed up.  Why would I allow myself to quit?  I don't get it.  Here's my story.

In this episode, I talk about

* Dodgeball Days

* My Quitting Strategy

* What I learned from it

Resources:

Miles Taylor from Spartan Spirit: https://youtu.be/yWGwussetCs

Transcript:

Good morning everyone. This is the Path to 1 Million. This is going to be episode 172 if we take a trip back in the, in the way back machine going back to my high school days and junior high days the days that I hated the most well let's take, let's let me clarify something here. I really wasn't into sports so much as a kid. I did love to play softball when I was little, but I really wasn't much into sports. I didn't have any coordination, didn't have any strength. I wasn't interested in doing it. I actually spent most of my time writing. But sports and activities are much of, you know, any kids life, especially in school. And during one of those years, I want to say it was my freshman year. I think gym class was mandatory, so we had to take, I believe it was a semester of gym.

It might've been an entire year, but at least it was a semester of gym. And the days that I hated the most in gym class was when the coach would walk in and he would look at us and he would say, all right, today we're going to play Dodge ball. And half the guys in the class would go bonkers. Right. There were crazy. They were stoked. They were just like, Oh my God, this is so awesome. This is so cool. And I hated it. I couldn't stand it. Every day the coach would come in and say that I would just drop my head and be like, Aw crap. Here we go again. Now at gym for Dodge ball, you know, the coach would always pick, you know, the two athletes start rocking guys and be like, okay, you guys are going to be team captains. So they would go back and forth and they would pick the kids in the class.

And of course I was always one of the last ones to be picked, if not the last one picked because I just simply, you know, everybody knew that it wasn't, and he got a Dodge ball, you know, so I was always one of the last ones that were picked and we would go through this and of course then the coach would always turn and be like, no matter what team I was on, he would point to my team and be like, you guys are skins. So that means that we would all have to take our shirts off. So if it wasn't bad enough that I sucked, I now had to expose my skin and bone body to the entire world. So we would get up there and we would start playing Dodge ball. And we had those those red rubber balls, like almost like a burgundy color.

And they had like these little stubbles on them or whatever it was. So when the ball actually hit your skin, it felt like it was tearing the flash off. I mean, it just, it stung. And at the end of the at the end of the Dodge ball session, you, you had red welts all over your body. It was just, it just hurt. It was painful. And I didn't like to do it cause I wasn't any good at throwing the balls. I wasn't, and you got to catching the balls. I wasn't good at anything. And so what would happen is, is that we would play one of these games and of course all the good people would, would be out within the first few minutes of it. Right? Cause they're engaged, they're on the front line, they're throwing the balls, they're like, you know, 10 feet away.

And I was always in the back hiding. I was flat against the wall that I can potentially be. Balls are flying back far back and forth. And then finally it would wind up where you would have 10 people left on each team and you know, a lot of them were just like me. You know, they really didn't want to be there and they didn't want to play. They didn't want to do it.