JKool

WhoDat,

1. The burden of proof is not on me here. If you want to claim leaders are born that way, you need to show me how genetics alone plays a role in being a leader. I do not have to show that environment plays a role in teaching someone to be a leader - my position is much more reasonable and widely accepted.

2. Teaching doesn\'t merely mean being sitting someone down and telling them stuff. The world teaches us all the time. We LEARN not to stick our hand in the fire, we LEARN to communicate with each other (which is surely required to be a leader), and we LEARN how to use our physical skills on the field, and the list goes on.

3. EVERY leader is an example of someone who has learned to be a leader when he was not before. No one at the age of 4 months is a leader (just to be as antagonistic as possible)! However, as I noted in an earlier thread, people learn to be leaders from role models (though, I concede that some of what makes a person a leader is genetic - such as intelligence). People like parents, coaches, heroes and so on all give us clues to what it takes to be a leader. In emulating them, we LEARN (and are taught by them) to be leaders.

Maybe we are just disagreeing about what it means to learn to be a leader, but the above is what I meant. I\'m sorry if I wasn\'t clear. However, I certainly don\'t think that because someone who currently participates in the NFL said something (whether it is Horn or Parcells or whoever), it must be true. I\'m certain you don\'t think that either. If I have to make an infrence, I\'m not sure why that is bad - I was merely trying to see if what Joe said has ANY merit at all. Sometimes, to be nice, it is better to be charitable to the speaker - i.e. infer that they meant something much smarter than what they said.

Whew. Sorry. I got a bit carried away there, but now that I\'ve written it, I\'m just going to post it. Feel free to respond or not.

"... I was beating them with my eyes the whole game..." - Aaron Brooks