quarta-feira, 18 de junho de 2014

Former athletes finish first in race for top jobs

 


Whether you were a quarterback or point guard, past participation in competitive team sports marks you as a winner in the competition for better jobs. "Participation in competitive youth sports 'spills over' to occupationally advantageous traits that persist across a person's life," People who played a varsity high school sport are expected to be more self-confident, have more self-respect, and demonstrate more leadership than people who were part of other extracurricular activities.

Former varsity athletes also reported significantly higher prosocial volunteerism and charitable activities. Also, many ex-jock octogenerians parlayed 65-year-old leadership skills into successful management careers -- some at the highest level.

Those who earned a varsity letter more than 50 years ago do demonstrate these characteristics more than others -- plus, they donate time and money more frequently than others and possessed great prosocial behavior in their 70s, 80s, and 90s,"

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