In Outcasts United, Luma is a very strict soccer coach. She believes in discipline, hard work, respect and determination. She strives to make her soccer teams as good as they can be, in all aspects. Not only is she an exceptional soccer coach, she is also in a way, a life coach. She is instilling in these boys values that they would not have learned about if they were not under the influence of Luma. She wants her teams to do their best on the field, but before that, she wants them to be disciplined, educated, hard working and respectful off of the field. These ideas that she is teaching the boys is very much the same ideas that we read about in the various articles this past week. The marshmallow video taught us about delayed gratification. It was learning about having to stick something out and have discipline in order to gain something from it. That is just like what Luma is teaching the boys. At first they boys are losing the games, and Luma expects this. but over time the boys become determined and strive to keep on going, despite their loses, in order to win and impress their coach. The boys are also working and practicing all the time in order to get better, and because of this they show vast improvement. This is just like the article that talked about how lots and lots of practice at something will eventually make you a master at it.
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