Former Kent, Middlesex and England cricketer Ed Smith has written a fascinating article in Intelligent Life magazine about the rise of the cult of professionalism in sport and in life in general. Specifically, he looks at the endless pursuit of the professional attitude, and wonders whether we have gone too far as a society, and that balance between the obsession with process and with a more amateur, fun-based approach to the world, needs restoring.
Whether or not one agrees with his views, he does raise some good points, and it is certainly true that many coaches in sport have been guilty of obsessing over copying the most professional model for coaching, rather than stopping to consider the merits of such an approach.
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