As a classroom teacher, I often ask students
about their performance in last night’s game.
If the team lost, the student invariably says
“We got beat” or “We didn’t do so well.”
I often wonder, wherever did they get that idea?
At a tournament the other day, our team did lose.
We could all see those results on the scoreboard.
But what is hidden from the view of the player
is often directly in plain sight o…