The author contrasts two very successful high jumpers, Stefan Holm and Donald Thomas. What central or main idea is revealed by the contrast between these two jumpers and the very different ways they achieved their success? Use your understanding of this contrast, as well as your understanding of central or main ideas and supporting details, to summarize the passage and state the overall central idea. Support your ideas with text evidence.

Read the excerpt from the land. of my brothers, i was closest with robert. i suppose, in part, being the same year's children made us close, but there were other things too. we had been together practically since birth, and we always took care of each other. when i got into trouble, robert was there to pull me out of it if he could, or at least to see me through it, and i did the same for him. the passage provides evidence of why paul and robert have physical conflicts. paul and robert avoid social conflicts. paul is the least influenced by robert. paul is motivated to ask robert for .