Chef at the University Canteen

Chapter 536 - 288: Slack Off Now, Dig Pitfalls for the Future_3

If you perform well in the competition and make it to the provincial team or national team, the future is yours, and so is the honor!

Pushing you to train now is so that you can step onto a bigger stage in the future!

But what do you do? You slack off every day, as soon as I look away, you start goofing off! What, do you think if you slack off and get lazy, I’m the one who’s losing out?!

The only ones losing out are yourselves!

Every time you slack off now, you’re digging a hole for your own future!"

Yin Tao slammed a black notebook he was holding onto the table, making a loud "bang".

Even after scolding those team members fiercely, he still felt somewhat dissatisfied, and was now still fuming.

"Lao Yin, why are you so worked up?"

After listening to his previous complaints, Lin Yahu more or less understood what happened, and said with a chuckle,

"Laziness is a human instinct, it’s not just these students who slack off, those who enter the workforce do the same. Not a small number of people are slacking off at work.

Just take it easy, getting angry is hard on your body!"

"Xiaolin, that’s not right."

Yin Tao picked up the cup from the table and gulped down several large mouthfuls of water, as if trying to douse the fire in his belly with water. He lifted his hand to wipe the water from the corner of his mouth, glanced sideways at Lin Yahu, and shook his head saying,

"Kobe had already won the NBA championship three years in a row and was a genuine superstar, yet he still worked so hard.

Was it that he didn’t understand how to slack off? Or couldn’t he slack off?

No, it’s because he knew that once you slack off, you become lax, and laxity leads to failure!"

After a pause, he added,

"There are many people like Kobe who always maintain effort and ambition.

But look at the bunch of kids we’re coaching, each one as slippery as a monkey. You take your eyes off them for one second and they’re slacking off!

Is this the time for them to slack off?

If they don’t work hard now, all those years of sweat and toil will have been for nothing!

If that’s the case, why even train in sports? Might as well quit early, learn something else, at least after graduation they can find a job and not starve!"

Who knows what those students did to make the already irritable Yin Tao so angry.

But Lin Yahu understood well, only a responsible coach would truly care about the athletes, hoping each of them could succeed and go further.

If you had a coach who didn’t pay any attention, whether you trained or not, even if you won a world championship, at best they’d just get a bonus. If you wanted to slack off, go ahead.

Running into such a person would be real bad luck. Even the most talented athlete would probably waste away under them.

"What you’re saying, of course, I know."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yahu smiled and said,

"However, why was Kobe able to suppress his ’laziness’ instinct? It’s because leading the team to another championship was attractive enough for him.

The same goes for other people. The reason they persevere and never slack off isn’t because they don’t want to, but because what they gain from working hard is attractive enough for them.

Let’s not talk about others, let’s just talk about myself.

Honestly, I’m also a lazy person, which is why I couldn’t achieve good results in the early stages of joining the track and field team.

Later, the coach privately approached me and said I needed to get a good result at that year’s Asian Games, at least a silver medal, otherwise I would be sent back to the provincial team.

How could I stand that? I had just made it to the national team and hadn’t even had the chance to show off in front of my mates. If I got sent back to the provincial team, wouldn’t I be a laughingstock?

So, in the half year leading up to the Asian Games, I trained like my life depended on it, even the coach couldn’t take it and forced me to rest.

You know the result, I became the champion at that session of the Asian Games.

Of course, later I found out that the coach’s threat to send me back to the provincial team was just to scare me into training hard using this tactic.

That’s how people are; sometimes you don’t push yourself, you never discover the potential you have!"

After taking a sip of water to wet his throat, he joked,

"So, why are these students at Jiang University slacking off? Simply because there’s not enough temptation to attract them.

Lao Yin, if you tell them whoever wins a medal at this provincial sports meet gets to have dinner with their favorite celebrity, I bet none of them would slack off, each one of them would train like crazy."

"Dinner with their favorite celebrity?"

Yin Tao’s anger was quick to rise and quick to fade, after venting to Lin Yahu for a bit, he was a lot calmer.

At the moment, hearing Lin Yahu’s "suggestion", his eyes widened round as saucers, and with a face full of disbelief, he said,

"They’ve got quite the imagination, I want to have dinner with my favorite female celebrity too, but the question is, do I have the capability?"

Shaking his head, he seemed to suddenly realize something, and quickly moved over to Lin Yahu’s side, asking with great curiosity,