{"id":4175,"date":"2011-06-01T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2011-06-01T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T19:04:10","slug":"high-school-athletes-should-read-a-book-this-summer-to-stay-mentally-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/high-school-athletes-should-read-a-book-this-summer-to-stay-mentally-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Athletes Should Read a Book This Summer to Stay Mentally Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Mind Will Get Lazy If You Don’t Keep It In Shape<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Go ahead, do it! I dare you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, let me admit out front that I have absolutely no scientific evidence to back up this claim, but from experience of watching thousands of high school athletes during the last 10 \u00a0summers, it is my opinion that your mind can definitely get lazy if you don’t keep it engaged with meaningful activities, and I don’t mean video games.\u00a0 You know, something literary which makes you think and imagine outside of weapons being fired and balls being hit or whatever.\u00a0 Granted, it’s not a novel idea, but reading is the very best way I believe which will keep a person upright and thoughtful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pop culture magazines can’t do it, so don’t go there.\u00a0 They’re too much like TV with quick-hit articles meant to get your three bucks and then\u00a0temporarily fill your brain with useless stuff.\u00a0\u00a0A book does the opposite.\u00a0 It puts you\u00a0into a life or\u00a0interesting scenarios which\u00a0cause you to ponder and project.\u00a0 Books put you into unique\u00a0situations which allow your mind to exercise\u00a0its basic job — to make you think.\u00a0 When you walk away from PlayStation or any other gaming station, you leave with what?\u00a0 Wondering what’s in the frig?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Do yourself a huge, huge favor, try it.\u00a0 Just once.\u00a0 Go to a bookstore.\u00a0 Buy a biography of autobiography.\u00a0 Pick up a book on an interesting time in history, or a fantasy story of the future.\u00a0 Better yet, if you have an e-book of some sort, order a book and take it around with you so that in your down times you will be reading instead of doing, well, nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Mind Will Get Lazy If You Don’t Keep It In Shape First, let me admit out front that I have absolutely no scientific evidence to back up this claim, but from experience of watching thousands of high school athletes during the last 10 \u00a0summers, it is my opinion that your mind can definitely get … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}