(EP11) Defining Self Identity with Sports-with Mike Bailey

Defining Self-Identity with Sports Mike Bailey, Sports Editor of the Galveston Daily News joins your host to discuss the awesome power that our society gives sports to acquire values, attitudes, and behaviors during our personal growth into adulthood. Sports tend to reflect our society at home, school, church, work, etc., by teaching important values and attitudes. We learn much of how we see ourselves as individuals and as members of our society through the positive or not-so-positive experiences we have with the world of sports. We often choose to see ourselves and others as a result of mental 'silent tapes' of our previous experiences with sports. We often are not aware of how powerful these silent messages can be in influencing our positive and/or negative moods and behaviors long after the causation factors took place.