The Right Stuff

Similarly, I once met a competitor at a tournament who was arrogant, snooty, and unsportsmanlike. His classmates were also like that - and, not surprisingly, when I met the teacher of that bunch, I found that he, too, was personality impaired. Now, I'm not sure if it's that ill-mannered teachers attract and keep ill-manner students, or of ill-mannered teachers make their own students ill-mannered. But why expose yourself to that kind of environment?

In the end, if you have a good teacher and a bad teacher (to use simplistic terms), but the bad teacher offers instruction in a style you truly like while the good teacher's style only mildly interests you, I still think it'd be worth it to go with the good teacher. You'll learn more and develop into a better human being.

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