I like to read Yahoo sports blogs. I check the hockey one quite consistently and keep apprised of the other ones when the seasons dictate. They're easy to find...over on the right hand side of each one are links to one another.
Anyhow, Puck Daddy, the hockey one, has this Justin Bourne guy writing for them who, it sounds like, used to be a minor league hockey professional. Interesting, interesting stuff. Especially this post.
He talks about love to win vs. hate to lose and it makes total sense. However, I think we need to extrapolate this further. Into the real world.
Think about it. How many of us are content to just kind of hit the cruise button once something (life, generally) is good enough? How many of us have a good idea, but just don't hav the drive, ambition, whatever to take it to the next step? It's all the same thing. There's just some people out there that are hungry for things to a level that the rest of us are not.
I know, it's not that simple. But I think if you were to look at the difference between the top 1% of achievers and the rest of us, you would see some of these qualities in them. Lots and lots of people have the talent/brains/eye/ideas. Not many know what to do with it or how to make the most of it.
Yeah, I liked that post. It's a pretty fine distinction between loving to win and hating to lose, but it's a true one, I think.
ReplyDeleteThe reason Bourne's posts work for me is that he's supposed to be an insider who played in the minors, but he's always pretty self-deprecating about the fact that he was never quite on the level of the NHL guys. In other words, he's not delusional about how much he knows about the game.