- Sep 28, 2016
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I have my own business and in real life I'm very optimistic as you can't do anything entrepreneurial with out an almost delusional amount of optimism. I don't know if it because it's something I have zero control over and at the same time I'm a little bit overly competitive, but I get an over the top emotional response from losses. I think I followed the wrong club...or perhaps it's like that experiment with rats where they rather feel pain than be bored.
I would love someone to run a psychological profile over AFL club supporters because I have always felt that, anecdotally, there are clear differences.
Irrespective of familial ties, like is attracted to like.
For example: Collingwood is a different species to us; we do not speak the same language, we do not share the same outlook, we have different expectations, our motivation differs.
But with others, we have a greater affinity.
In the Peter Temple novel "Black Tide", the four old Fitzroy supporters are driving the protagonist (Jack Irish) crazy with their Fitzroy focus, even though Fitzroy is long gone and up north. He puts them on a new and more local path: St Kilda. Reluctantly at first, then with increasing enthusiasm their attention locks on to the Saints. Even to the point of attending our games.
I'm reading this book in the States and I just knew which club was going to be the selection. It resonated with me.
So, you may have had no choice in the matter:your genes made you do it!!
(PS: great writer by the way, do yourself a favour and read his work. All set in Melbourne. He absolutely nails the AFL culture. AND, he is South African born.)