Genius

Months ago I was teaching a health class and I was trying to get the point across that when it comes to fitness and goals you have to take certain steps and improve your habits all around.  This includes the training, sleeping enough, eating the right amount and types of foods, and resting enough too.  My learning objective was for students to see the forest for the trees.  To get them to where I wanted them to be I put the onus on them.  It is a useful trick.

Me: "Let's say you want to become the worlds fastest runner.  You want to be number one.  What do you think you will need to do to be number one?"

A few good ideas come up and I write them on the board.  This includes things related to being active, sleep, and nutrition.  Then Kodi raises his hand.

Me: "Yes, Kodi."

Kodi: "You can train hard enough to just be the second best runner and then kill the guy that's number one."

Me:




Then me:






Then I couldn't stop laughing for about 2 minutes and I showered his team with points.