Loser lessons make good winners. The trick is finding context. The particular context is knowing you’re not a lifetime loser because of a few events that didn’t turn our your way. I’ve had a few, you’ve had a few. Anyone who says they haven’t had a few are only lying to themselves. Some loser lessons […]
COMPETITION QUESTIONS FOR THE NON-COMPETITIVE
April 8, 2021 by
Competition questions start before you realize there’s even a competition happening. One of my favorites: “Do you even lift, bro?” It’s usually asked by a mid-forties man in a workout costume. It’s completed by an undershirt that looks like something out of a lady’s drawer. When it’s a question asked by a guy with greased […]
WINNING MINDSET STARTS EARLY FOR WINNERS
November 27, 2020 by
A winning mindset starts before anything else. Get it locked in as soon as possible. I heard a variation on sports talk radio where a host and guest talked about professional athletes on losing teams. Big time pros never consider themselves losers; they’re good players on bad teams that don’t win. In other words, it’s […]
HOW SPORTS LIFE GUIDES REAL LIFE
May 22, 2019 by
Sports life not about winning and losing, but how you play the game? Real life says sports life isn’t an accurate reflection, that winning is the reason, the only reason, to do anything. People in the winning camp like to say winners do what losers won’t do. They’re not wrong, they just don’t know what […]
If Winners Rule By Winning, Everyone Else Is A Loser?
May 9, 2019 by
The safe answer for winners is, “Maybe.” Don’t we all consider ourselves winners at some point? We might say we don’t keep score, but we know the score. Like rec soccer for toddlers, they knew the score of their games even if the parents pretended not to. So why not just say, “screw it,” and […]
GRADING NOBEL PRIZES ON THE IMMIGRANT CURVE
October 12, 2016 by
American Nobel Prize winners ruin the immigrant curve. So far six Americans won Nobel Prizes in 2016. All are immigrants. Nor does this year’s success of immigrants to the US appear to be a one-off. After analysing Nobel winners, Stuart Anderson, of the National Foundation for American Policy, found that immigrants have won 40 per […]
