premise: There 's lots of little ways you can tell you ' ve been defeated . One of them is to find yourself in the slow swimmers ' side of the pool in the Sherr pool at the penn gym . This is the pool where people doggy paddle and clutch flotation devices to keep themselves upright . There are ancient men who can barely walk who tenderly ease themselves into the water and sit on the steps , and then go stretch in the sauna . What would be different if you were not defeated ?
hypothesis: You would use flotation devices