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112 REfLECTIvE COsMOPOLITANIsM Situation Good Bad ??? Reasons I think I know my teammates better than I know other people. On the pitch, I know what they are going to do before they actually do it. We are all very different in every aspect: in appear- ance, in character, in the way we play. We are all very similar. We are approximately the same size and we all have the same skills because we have all trained with the same coach from an early age. We all have roles or tasks we have to carry out, and we do our best to rotate these tasks. What conditions or qualities must a team have in order to be a good team? Discussion Plan: How do you build a good team? 1. If you want to help build a good team, is it a good idea to bring some snacks for the players? Is it necessary? 2. If you want to help build a good team, is getting on well beneficial? Is it necessary? 3. If you want to help build a good team, is it beneficial for all the players to be friends? Is it necessary? 4. If you want to help build a good team, is it a good idea to avoid conflict by not speaking your mind? 5. If you want to help build a good team, is it a good idea to always speak your mind even when a disagreement has gone on for days? 6. Are the team’s achievements more important than your own? 7. Are the team’s achievements also your own? 8. Could a team’s victory imply a failure for one of its players? If you answered “yes”, give an example. 9. If you are not developing your skills and enjoying what you do, but your team always wins, is it a good team? 10. If a team always loses but its players improve together, is it a good team? Leading Idea 2: Truth The concept of “truth” is constantly used in everyday language. It is generally used to ex- press the relation between what we say and the reality we are referring to. When a teacher asks a child why he broke a window, the child might deny what he did and say: “That is not true. I didn’t break the window.” What the child is doing is denying the connection between the statement and reality. The window may be broken, but he did not break it. When the concept is used in such way, philosophers have put forward several theories to explain: a) how and if one can affirm this connection b) how we understand the connection and c) how we can prove the connection. On other occasions (as in this episode), we can state that our team played badly be- cause it is not really a team. There are real teams and teams which are not really teams,