Thanks, Ash, for throwing the rule book out the window. | OPINION by Moya Dodd, ex-Matildas vice-captain AshBarty
Shocked by Ash Barty’s abrupt retirement? Don’t be. By 25, she’s learned lessons that most of us take much longer to absorb.
How many bathroom singers or wistful overweight footballers persist with their passion, fearless of ridicule or judgment? I say, not enough!Barty Lesson #1: You have choices. You can stop when it’s enough, even if it’s what you’re famous for. Opportunity costs are real, and being at the top of any field requires that you forgoof other things – birthday parties, lazy sleep-ins, childhoods, sensible recovery time and much more.
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