Comments on: Crucial Applications: How to Talk Sports and Keep Your Friends https://cruciallearning.com/blog/crucial-applications-how-to-talk-sports-and-keep-your-friends/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:07:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: editor https://cruciallearning.com/blog/crucial-applications-how-to-talk-sports-and-keep-your-friends/#comment-1843 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:07:39 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=1813#comment-1843 Thanks for the reminder, @Laura G.! Remember, it’s just a game!

]]> By: Laura G. https://cruciallearning.com/blog/crucial-applications-how-to-talk-sports-and-keep-your-friends/#comment-1842 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:43:59 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=1813#comment-1842 I think you missed one more tip that I think is paramount — “Keep it in perspective”! While it’s fun to be passionate about a particular player or team, in the end, it’s only a game for goodness sake, not something of serious importance. Does it really matter who’s right or wrong (or whether there’s even a “right” or a “wrong”)? Are people’s lives (other than, perhaps, the team members’) seriously affected? The same can be said for arguments about people’s favorite television shows or movies (although, I will say, that I’ve never seen folks resort to violence when there was a “fight” about Star Trek vs. Star Wars or Star Trek vs. Babylon 5 at a science fiction convention — but I digress….)

So, if it seems like the conversation isn’t “fun” anymore, just drop it — you’re not going to change anyone’s mind and, more importantly, it really doesn’t matter enough that you should try to, once the fun is gone. There may be conversations where it’s important to persevere to do your best to persuade someone to consider another viewpoint, but this ain’t one of them!

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