Golf is\nknown as a game for big business executives to make deals while they play? What\nare the things that make it a perfect game for such things? Navin Kabra\nidentified these for all the other GenWise instructors and myself at the Clover\nGreens Golf Course last Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First of\nall, it is a slow sport. You hit a ball hundreds of metres away and then walk\nto it. All this walking is enough time to negotiate a deal. Secondly, it has no\nrequirements of athleticism. A player of any level of fitness can play.\nThirdly, it costs a lot. This means you are guaranteed successful people, so\ninteraction with people of a lower economic class will be limited. Fourth, and\nmost importantly, you are scored, not on how you did that game, but how you\ndid, compared to all your other games. The handicap rule makes it so that you\nare playing based on your average score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However\ninteresting this is, it is not the most important thing about this observation.\nFor me, the way this observation has been gleaned is the important thing. This\nis something I like to call \u201cBut Why?\u201d analysis. The answer is found by asking\nthe question \u201cBut Why?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Golf is a\ngreat sport for executive networking. But why? There are multiple answers. For\neach answer, you ask the question \u201cbut why?\u201d until you cannot. In this way, you\nreach the most fundamental rules of the workings of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best\nexample of this analysis, again pointed out by instructor Navin Kabra, was in\nthe book Guns, Germs, and Steel <\/em>by Jared Diamond. In it, Diamond\nattempts to find the reasons of European colonialism. European countries had\nthe most colonies. But why? Because there was a European presence in a lot of\ndifferent countries. But why? Because they went to more countries for trading.\nBut why? Because they had better ships. But why? And so on. Diamond came to the\nconclusion that the shape of the continent contributed to the rise of\ncolonialism there. The reason for that is very complicated, so I will not go\ninto it. What I want to discuss is how vital this is in children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No school\nis teaching this kind of analysis. They simply give the children books, and\ntell them that the book holds the truth. Instead, this kind of questioning\nshould be taught in schools. They should be taught, not who discovered the\nGene, and what the formula for finding the area of a cylinder is, but to ask\nthe correct questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Students my age simply do not ask questions for fear of being wrong. They would rather not learn than make a mistake. They need to be taught that mistakes are okay. The only way this happens is by not punishing mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But if you can’t punish mistakes, what do you punish? What do you test your students on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Test the\nstudents on what they do with information given to them. Teach them to find\ntheir own information. Test the students on how they use the information they\nget by having them write pieces about their own opinions. Do not check whether\nor not the opinion is correct, but whether it is clear, and uses all the\ninformation at their disposal. If you punish mistakes, the children would rather\nnot learn than make the mistakes, and that is absolutely unacceptable. But Why?\nAnalysis is a perfect method of learning. This can be tested by seeing how deep\na student has gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than\nseeing what a student knows, test what they do with the things they know. That\nis what the world does, and is that not what schools are? Aren\u2019t schools a\nplace where children are taught about the real world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Golf is known as a game for big business executives to make deals while they play? What are the things that make it a perfect game for such things? Navin Kabra identified these for all the other GenWise instructors and … <\/p>\n