TWINS COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER.

TWINS COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER. I posted here on twins in sports and speculated that twins seem to have done better in basketball because it is a sport that you can practice one on one. Dick Weisfelder sent me this article about Andrew Reed and Will Reed, identical twins who are outstanding athletes at Amherst. Their success is attributed to the fact that they have always been fiercely competitive with each other. For example, Andrew went out for track so that his brother wouldn’t have bragging rights as a two-sport athlete. The article says: “[Their] ‘Anything you can do, I can do better’ mentality is the foundation of their relationship.” My brother Elmer and I were not fiercely competitive in sports. I think the reason is that we were not good athletes. For one of the Reeds to surpass his brother is an accomplishment. For one of us to be better than the other was no accomplishment at all.