Every Second Counts
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"She was right, and I knew it. I apologized, and gave some thought to winning and losing, and how to handle each. When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You can easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you’ve worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn’t particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
Losing, on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among the things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you’re willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are."
- from Every Second Counts, Lance Armstrong.
"She was right, and I knew it. I apologized, and gave some thought to winning and losing, and how to handle each. When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You can easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you’ve worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn’t particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
Losing, on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among the things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you’re willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are."
- from Every Second Counts, Lance Armstrong.
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MaRoVery nice, btw I'm an experienced loser if anyone needs advices for how to handle it 😉 -
silverscorpionVery nice.
Btw, Is that "Every second counts", the autobiography of Lance Armstrong? -
shalini_goel14Very true said lines. I believe in my line
"Only a successful person knows the real meaning of failure " -
Saandeep SreerambatlaI am not sure though but i think "Its not about the bike , My journey back to life " is his autobiography.
That book is a real good one..the first Ebook i have read.😀
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