EP2: Does Basketball Actually Develop Virtues?

Elevated Conversations

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Do human beings truly develop virtues, morals, and spiritual qualities through playing the sport of basketball? Or is basketball just a trivial pursuit and waste of time?
In Episode 2 of "Elevated Conversations" I explore the Baha'i Writings; the reflections of the inventor of basketball, James Naismith; as well as my own personal experience to share how we can practically develop virtuous qualities through the sport of basketball.
5 Virtues I've developed through playing basketball:

Excellence
Truthfulness/Reconciliation
Encouragement
Humility
Contentment

5 Virtues we can understand through the metaphor of basketball:

Spiritual Initiative
Spiritual Agility
Spiritual Accuracy
Spiritual Skill
Spiritual Muscle Memory

References
Basketball: It's Origin and Development by James Naismith
https://www.amazon.com/Basketball-Origin-Development-James-Naismith/dp/0803283709
Muscular Christianity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity
The Virtues Project
https://virtuesproject.com/
Baha'i Quotations on Virtues
Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet of Wisdom
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/tb-10.html
Gleaning from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-134.html
Paris Talks of `Abdu’l-Bahá'
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/pt-56.html

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