How to learn to love "almost winning"
Inspiration / / December 26, 2019
How do you feel about the fact that the problem was solved, but not quite as you would like? That is, it can not be called a failure, but too difficult to win.
In his speech at the TED critic Sarah Lewis talks about how she studied the history and work of the great masters - artists, poets and athletes - and on the basis of their behavior to draw conclusions about how to relate to his "almost victory" in order to develop further.
Skill - not the obligation to win, and the constant pursuit. What moves us, what motivates to move on - is the ability to appreciate the close, still not achieve victory.
My seven-year son has a friend of the boy, with whom he goes to the section of the martial arts. This boy recognizes only victories. If they just run after training at the stadium, he turns it into a competition and falls into a rage, if not wins. He wants to be first, even, for that took the first time in his life, and no admonition that it takes a long time and train hard, do not help. Parents do not know what to do with it and how to explain to a boy of seven, that's just an experience - it is also the result, so that he did not beat more skilled competitors.
In his speech at the TED critic Sarah Lewis talks about how she studied the history and work of the great masters - artists, poets and athletes. On the basis of their behavior, she concludes how to treat their "almost victory" in order to develop further.