"So, What's So Bad About Being So-So?"

I would have to say that she is stating the fact that she enjoys doing many things, even though she does them poorly. She sees it as, you don't need to be great at something to love doing it. She likes having more than one hobby to keep herself entertained. She's also saying, don't worry so much about perfecting something, other than learning it to love it. Although, she isn't saying don't try so hard in work, but to do so in your other activities.
  I can go both ways with her on this. I don't fully agree or disagree. I myself, come from a very active, competitive family. My brother was a Football and baseball star. I did basketball for 2 years, volleyball 3, softball 10, was a cheerleader for 10 years, and cheer coached for 2. Also track for 4 years and cross country for 2. I was always into sports, I had to be active, and most importantly stay in shape. I enjoyed all of my sports. I'd have to say, I loved being worked hard, and I liked my strict coaches more so than my non-strict. Winning is fun! :) I'm sure everyone agrees. It's not so much fun to be the only one putting your all into practice, and have your team slack off because the end results are LOOSING. Who wants to be that one team that wins 1 game a season??? I've experienced this in Cheerleading. People say it's not a sport, but i disagree. I would come home more bruised and tired from cheer practice then my brother would from football. You try being thrown up in the air and not being caught. It's quite painful I must say. My first year of cheerleading I had a really strict coach and at cheer competition we won First place. The second year my coach was there for just fun, and we didn't place. There is a such thing as working too hard, and not working enough. It was a bummer to go from winning to completely loosing. Then when I took up cheer coaching some of the cheerleaders disliked me... especially my sister. I was pretty strict. I made most of them cry from working too hard, I will admit I felt a little bad. But when cheer competition came my girls worked so hard, and nailed their routine. When they announced the winners, (my team) the look on the girls' faces paid off. They were so happy and came and gave me a hug, and thanked me for working them so hard.
  I do understand that there are kids out there in it to have fun, and also in it to win it. But if you're one of the kids who want to just have fun, I say make a team with kids who just want to have fun. There are kids out there who want to work their butt off, and hate having kids on the team who are (say in baseball), in the out field chasing bumble bees around. But anyways, as I am saying, I like to work hard. Maybe if you're like 6 years old playing sports you shouldn't be too strict, but as you get older, things should be more strict. Most kids go into the game knowing they will have to work at it, and they accept it, others just don't, and you can't always change their attitudes towards it.