Soccer player Kyle Rote Jr remarked, “There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to become a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not be able to see beyond it.” How people perceive failure and cope with it, even […]
When I think about those people who are capable of facing adversity and using it to move forward, the story of Mary Kay Ash comes to mind first. She built an extraordinary company. Over the past four or five years, I have had numerous opportunities to discuss leadership with members of her cosmetics company. In […]
“The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often measured by our perception of error.” NELSON BOSWELL On August 6, 1999, a Major League Baseball player steps up to bat in Montreal and is retired, marking the 5,113th time in his career. That’s countless at-bats without a hit! If a player were to record all those […]
Over the past 20 years, American educators have noticed a significant decline in students’ exam results and their desire to learn, so they have tried to find ways to reverse this trend. One popular theory stated that the best way to improve children’s skills was to “inflate” their self-esteem. Observing that winners had confidence in […]
“Fear makes us realize what scares us.” VIKTOR FRANKL Almost everyone has heard of the Wright brothers, those bicycle mechanics who pioneered manned motorized flight in the early 20th century. The circumstances surrounding Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight on December 17, 1903, are most interesting. (It’s a story that undoubtedly illustrates the art of […]
“At the moment a question crosses your mind, mentally picture yourself grasping it and responding to it. It is at this precise moment that a choice is made. You learn thus to take the right path. You learn thus to become a decision-maker and not an undecided one.” – H. VAN ANDERSON Business professors Gary […]
There’s only one way out of a traffic jam on the highway of failure, and that’s to wake up and find the exit. To depart from the lane of perpetual defeats, a person must first utter the four most difficult words to say: “I was wrong.” They must open their eyes, acknowledge their mistakes, and […]
It may seem exaggerated to be someone’s shadow, but it’s the golden rule to reach the top. By studying people who have become references, it’s unlikely not to notice that they were previously the right-hand person or assistant to someone else who succeeded in their field. It’s important to understand that nobody on this earth […]
We live in a world where the reflex to compare ourselves to others is almost automatic because everyone has become a judge to say what is right or wrong, first or last. Since Adam ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, this need to judge has settled […]
