[CQ-Contest] Wires only?

[Kelly Taylor]

Umm, part of encouragement is acknowledging that in ANY competitive
endeavour, it takes time to become competitive. Tiger Woods started golfing
at age 3, almost all of the current Formula One stars started in go-karts
before they turned 10, Wayne Gretzky started playing hockey when he was 5.

Failure to set up realistic expectations is a huge misjudgment by an Elmer:
it's telling someone who has only ever golfed casually they could win The
Masters. Bring someone in to contesting and you MUST tell them that it takes
time and practice to become a winner, just as is the case in EVERY OTHER
COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOUR there is.

There's a great sign sponsored by one of our banks up at a local hockey
rink: When people play for the love of the game, everybody wins.



73, kelly
ve4xt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com>
To: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt at mts.net>; "Blake M." <n4gi at tampabay.rr.com>;
<cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Wires only?


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> At 07:51 AM 1/29/2006, Kelly Taylor wrote:
>
> >It's curious that folk would place such high expectations on themselves
at
> >contesting the first time out. Perhaps we need to do a better job of
showing
> >folk what it's all about?
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> High expectations are half the fun. Would you enter a contest if
> you'd been told you don't have a snowball's chance in hell? Even
> worse, would you come back for the next one if you found out they were
right?
>
> Let's encourage, not discourage.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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