Many team sports can teach you valuable life lessons. Basketball, for instance, is one of the sports that have a huge potential of providing you important skills and values you can use in any area of your life, regardless your level of studies, your work or your IQ.

Cooperation in a group and teamwork
Top basketball teams have an excellent cohesiveness between players and coaches. They all have only one purpose, which is to cooperate for pushing their performance as high as possible.

They give each other constructive feedback; they support each other, and they listen to each member of the team with the same attention and care.