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The difference between winning and succeeding. John Wooden - Coggle Diagram
The difference between winning and succeeding. John Wooden
What he found when he was teaching high school students.
He was slightly disappointed by the way that the students’ parents of his class
expected their children to get As or Bs.
Parents wouldn’t be happy when their children would get Cs.
The student or the teacher would feel like they had failed.
He didn’t think it was right because not everyone could earn an A or B.
If you won all the games you were considered to be successful.
Found that they had years where they didn’t lose a game yet it seemed like
they didn’t win each individual game
He wanted to come up with something that would make him a better teacher.
To give the students something to aspire to other than a higher mark in the
classroom or more points in a game.
When he was younger his dad taught him to never try to be better than someone else.
Always learn from others.
Never stop trying to be the best that you can be.
That is under your control.
Don't get too engrossed and involved and worried about things that you can not
control.
It will affect the things over which you have control.
What is success?
He defined it as a peace of mind attained only through self satisfaction knowing
that you made the effort to do the best that you can do.
If you make the effort to do the best of which you're capable trying to
improve the situation that exists for you, that's success.
Three rules.
Never be late.
If you are going somewhere you must be neat and clean.
No profanity.
Always start practice on time and always end practice on time.
The pyramid.
These building blocks, coupled with these traits, would lead to success.
The bottom two corners being industriousness and enthusiasm.
working hard and enjoying what you're doing.
Right at the top, faith and patience.
Have patience in everything you do and believe that things will
work out as they should
Helped him become a better teacher.
Revolved around the definition of success.
Another set of 3 rules that his dad taught him.
Don't whine.
Don't complain.
Don't make excuses.
Just get out there and do it to the best of your ability.
Never mention winning.
You can lose when you outscore someone in a game.
You can win when you are outscored.
“When a game is over and you see someone who didn't know the outcome, I hope that they couldn't tell by your actions whether you out scored an opponent or the opponent outscored you.”
Make an effort to do the best that you can do regularly.
The results will be what they should be.
Not necessarily what you want them to be.
But about what they should be.
Only you will know whether you can do that.
“The journey is better than the end.”
Its getting there
Practices are like the journey.
And the game would be the end, the end result.