#21: My Kind of Competition
Look, I like the World Cup. It’s the only sporting event I watch other than the Olympics. But as a distinctly non-sporty person, I definitely don’t play soccer, not even on the weekends in the local park. The World Cup, to me, is something distant and strange, with people of astonishing athleticism doing things I couldn’t ever dream of doing.
So this seems much more like my type of thing. I mean, let’s be real, I would do terribly at the Financial Modeling World Cup too. I enjoy Excel—yes, I’m a nerd—but my skills stop at calculating the taxes I owe. But at least I wouldn’t completely embarrass myself. In the real World Cup, I would immediately trip over my feet and be trampled to death by handsome Europeans with man buns and cleats.