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Are you a sport passionate?

We often use words without stopping to understand their value. This is the case when we talk about passion. What do we mean when we say that we are passionate about something, that amateurs (nowadays more frequently called masters), for example, are passionate about swimming, running or cycling. That is, that I do the work I’ve always wanted to do.

Passion consists of a particularly strong motivation towards a well-defined activity, it is very useful to understand what drives to training, study or work. A survey conducted in 2019 had highlighted that 55% of Italians are satisfied with their work. satisfaction is at a lower level than passion although positive and determined by experiences evaluated as rewarding.

Passion emerges in those jobs that involve a certain degree of creativity and are perceived by those who perform them as more exciting, since they require autonomy, decision-making skills and divergent reasoning. Those who consider it necessary to introduce innovative factors into their professional experiences, as opposed to those who make more conservative choices, are certainly among those who perform work with passion. Athletes who have succeeded in turning their passion for their sport into a job fall into this category. Outside the work context, those who are engaged in activities driven by the pleasure they provide, from which they derive no gain or material recognition, are individuals turned to cultivating a passion.

Like any psychological dimension, passion can be interpreted in a constructive and pleasant way and in another more negative way, in this case we can talk about:

Harmonious passion, it is based on autonomous motives. pleasure and the feeling of mastery.
Obsessive passion, consists in feeling obliged or compensate for other aspects of the personality. Reduces concentration. Obstructs self-regulation.

Be able to transform a passion into your job

The personal dimension that I admire most in humans is their ability to transform a passion into their work.

Athletes and artists are among those recognized for their direct connection between their professional activity and their passion for sports and art. However, this can occur in any human endeavor. It takes courage and tenacity to pursue this personal project, as nothing is guaranteed when deciding to take this path. It’s the passion that sustains this way of gaining perspective even when there’s no certainty of achieving a satisfying result, which can be attained at the highest levels of success or perhaps in less obvious outcomes that are equally fulfilling for those who attain them.

Maintaining the connection between passion and work is challenging, and there are many questions and doubts that people encounter along this path. It’s a bond based on thinking big, fulfilling one’s dream, while having to act daily within one’s small environment. One must move forward with head held high, proud of the choices made, but also stay grounded, savoring the effort and setbacks that accompany this journey towards self-realization.

It’s a game where one must quickly learn to accept mistakes and defeats, knowing that the better equipped you are, the more easily you’ll rise from defeats.

In a world that demands security and guarantees of success, this approach represents precisely the opposite, telling you: ‘You’ll find yourself in difficult situations, you’ll make mistakes, you’ll fear not improving. Good! These will be the moments to test your passion. If you keep wanting to learn despite the mistakes, it means you’re genuinely passionate. If instead, you give up, it means you don’t have enough desire to face difficulties to overcome them.

Are you passionate?

We often use words without stopping to understand their value. This is the case when we talk about passion. What do we mean when we say that we are passionate about something, that amateurs (nowadays more frequently called masters), for example, are passionate about swimming, running or cycling. That is, that I do the work I’ve always wanted to do.

Passion consists of a particularly strong motivation towards a well-defined activity, it is very useful to understand what drives to training, study or work. A survey conducted in 2019 had highlighted that 55% of Italians are satisfied with their work. satisfaction is at a lower level than passion although positive and determined by experiences evaluated as rewarding.

Passion emerges in those jobs that involve a certain degree of creativity and are perceived by those who perform them as more exciting, since they require autonomy, decision-making skills and divergent reasoning. Those who consider it necessary to introduce innovative factors into their professional experiences, as opposed to those who make more conservative choices, are certainly among those who perform work with passion. Athletes who have succeeded in turning their passion for their sport into a job fall into this category. Outside the work context, those who are engaged in activities driven by the pleasure they provide, from which they derive no gain or material recognition, are individuals turned to cultivating a passion.

Like any psychological dimension, passion can be interpreted in a constructive and pleasant way and in another more negative way, in this case we can talk about:

Harmonious passion, it is based on autonomous motives. pleasure and the feeling of mastery.
Obsessive passion, consists in feeling obliged or compensate for other aspects of the personality. Reduces concentration. Obstructs self-regulation.

Football is fun

“Football is fun,” said the other day Paolo Casarin, great connoisseur of the human soul and football expert. It may seem a trivial statement but it is not at all. If the players would just play to have fun like they were kids they would have less stress and the games would be much better.

Have fun takes away stress and fatigue to the game. Have fun means recognizing that they play to realize their passion. Having fun is being able to turn the child’s passion in a work. Having fun is to say: “who would have thought that I was coming up to here, it’s fantastic.”

If the players stop having this approach to football, they kill the child within themselves and not having fun anymore. The stress to correspond in every match to the expectations of the club, teammates, fans can become a big problem.

Real Madrid-Barcelona: when soccer is again passionating

Last night it has been played Real Madrid – Barcelona and it was a great game of football. It’s finished 4-3 to Barcelona but such it’s the quality of the players on the field that it could have also finish 6 to 6. They face two different play philosophies, that of Real Madrid centered on the single individuality who can solve in any moments the matches that of Barcelona dominated the chorus of the play. Two teams who wanted to win and then become available to undergo the continuous attacks of the opponents. A game in which the players run, not for  sacrifice spirit, but for the need to maintain a high intensity, not to give opponents the time to restart with ease. Maintain high pressure on opponents is an attitude that Barcelona was able to show better than Real Madrid. There were three penalties because the quality of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Iniesta is such that the defenders had to make a foul to stop them. When two teams made up of so many champions come into the field to win the show is sure, they are players who do not slow down and convey to the public their willingness to take risks, to play ball for the pleasure it gives to do it effectively. It’s certainly their job but they have forwarded that football is their passion and they played with that attitude. Like in children’s matches in which everyone wants to play and score.

How we are strange

How we are strange:

  • you lose more than win
  • it’s easy to get injured
  • it’s a short career
  • you are old in sport when others are still young
  • you must follow a lifestyle hard enough
  • many athletes live a nomad life
  • you have always give the best and often it’snot enough
  • if you do not win it spreads the idea that you’re finished

nevertheless the passion that governs us makes us continue against any kind of logic.

Il calcio ci continua a distruggere

Il calcio ci continua a distruggere con i suoi scandali e ci dice che seguire le regole, pari opportunità e rispetto degli altri sono sempre più dei fattori rari. Queste truffe ci colpiscono di più che in altri sport, perchè è il nostro sport nazionale, è quello praticato dalla maggior parte dei bambini, è quello delle figurine Panini della nostra infanzia, il lunedì mattina ci dà modo di sfottere i colleghi e gli amici le cui squadre hanno perso e a noi di gonfiarci in modo tronfio, permette a noi padri di giocare a pallone con nostro figlio e sognare che diventerà un campione, la domenica pomeriggio sappiamo da sempre cosa fare e nessuno si permette in famiglia di ostacolare questo bisogno, tutti capiamo di calcio, non è complicato come la pallacanestro, è immediatamente intuitivo; tutti siamo stati bambini e il tifo per la squadra del cuore appartiene alle scelte di quegli anni e non cambierà mai, quando siamo stanchi e frustrati possiamo scaricare le nostre tensioni sui giocatori che non sono più quelli di una volta e non mostrano attaccamento alla maglia, viviamo nel mito dei cicli vittoriosi delle grandi squadre del passato e quando sono italiane ne siamo orgogliosi come se ne facessimo parte, su Italia-Germania 4-3 hanno addirittura realizzato dei film; il calcio annulla le differenze sociali e siamo tutti accomunati dalla stessa passione infantile. Questo stanno distruggendo anche se noi resistiamo.

Bamboccio bloc

Riprendo il titolo dell’articolo di Gramellini sulla Stampa di oggi, in cui si ribella all’idea che “il ragazzo che ha lanciato l’estintore per spegnere l’incendio … diventi il simbolo della generazione degli indignati”. Sono assolutamente d’accordo e volgio aggiungere che insieme ai tanti ragazzi che studiano o cercano lavoro, vi sono anche gli atleti, non solo i campioni che tutti conosciamo, ma quelle migliaia che ogni giorno si allenano per ore, molti dei quali non diventeranno mai dei fuoriclasse ma lo fanno perchè lo sport lo praticano non per guadagno o per fama ma perchè gli piace, per passione, per sentirsi bravi o per la voglia di confrontarsi con gli altri. Sono tanti e non pochi, ma nessuno mai ne parla eppure sono loro che stanno alla base dello sport italiano.