There are people who regard playing sports is unnecessary and redundant, because it costs time at the expanse of valuable time for studying. However, playing sports can not only increase the efficiency of studying, but also help students to learn about value of cooperation. Therefore, I strongly believe that university should invest same amount of money in both their students' sports activities and school libraries.
To start with, playing sports can drastically help students to improve their concentration skill, increasing the efficiency of studying. It is mainly due to the fact that playing sports can reduce stress level. According to the study conducted by the physiology department of Yonsei University in 2012, playing sports provides students a chance to reduce stress and refresh themselves. Furthermore, study revealed this effectiveness of playing sports can actually increase the efficiency of studying. For example, this research compared two groups. Whereas the second group who didn't exercise but only studied showed no improvement of reducing stress levels and increasing efficiency of studying, the first group who excercised regularly showed improvement in both aspects.
Secondly, by playing sports, students can learn about value of cooperation, since sport is about helping and supporting another between team members. Students must cooperate in order to win the game; therefore teamwork is most important aspect. For example, I was a member of school's basketball team, and I played most of the games out of without self interest, ruining every game. Then I realized I was in responsible of losing every game, because I was a lousy team player. At that moment, I changed my attitude towards playing basketball. I only played for my own team, supporting my teammates. Not to mention, my team was able to success, I was able to learn how much it is important to cooperate. I became very cooperative person even when I'm in group study, and it turned out that cooperativeness works the same in group study.
In summary, regardless of some people saying that playing sports is unnecessary, I believe that playing sports is just as important than as any other aspects of studying for the reasons I stated above.
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