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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zadam" data-source="post: 2257873" data-attributes="member: 30468">A good reply, I can definately see what you are getting at.  I guess the one thing that is still not totally convincing to me with the examples you have used above is that you can't totally equate something like sport, which I think involves like you say just as much mental prowess as it does physical.  Playing a sport such as football or basketball would involve many different "skills", and also the ability to make split second decisions, reflexes, fitness/endurance, strength, figuring out strategies of play etc.  The point is you would need to be good at a multitude of skills to be good at a sport, and some sportsmen are better at certain aspects of the game than others, which backs up that point. You can't really compare this to something like the "Jump" skill which is a much more "simple" thing to do than to play sport.  I doubt any of the mental attributes needed to play a sport well would be applicable to jumping...  Having to make split second decisions, figuring out a strategy of play etc...  It's a much more simple thing...</blockquote>