01-27-2018, 11:46 PM
(01-27-2018, 11:20 AM)LoveNavy link Wrote:I think it speaks to the highly competitive nature of such sports. The environment becomes overloaded with expectations and some will internalize this as pressure. In vulnerable individuals, one can lose one's self. Resulting in a detour from genuine connectedness. That is, disconnection with self and other. Some use the analogy of where one's head resides....
Sadly, some of these individuals fail to reconnect living life as a detached 'untouchable'. At the extreme and if stable over time, Yes, you are seeing narcissistic and psychopathic traits. Fascinating stuff indeed LP...
It's a little bit of a blight on the rest of us that we allow these traits to persist at the highest levels, and our hypocrisy in labelling these people as roll models when they are far from it.
I think societies lack of action says something about the general human condition.
Look at AFL which is dominated by Pudding Faces and Ice Poles, dare I even mention tennis at this time!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"