Winners Find a Way to Win But …

Winners find a way to win and losers find the way to lose. I’ve said this for many years but there’s more to this adage than just that.

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For years, I’ve made the statement… It’s an incomplete statement and understand why in a minute.

The statement is, “Winners find the way to win and losers find a way to lose.”

I would continue by saying, “One of the ways that winners find a way to win is that they know that losers are going to find a way to lose.” This is an advantage that is built into being a winning team, organization, person, whatever measure that you are using here.

What’s interesting to me is that I’ve never really spoken about what precedes that — the run-up in the learning to being a winner. Becoming a winner doesn’t happen instinctively. There is a lot of effort that goes into it and a lot of learning.

To use a sports example, it’s not just that Michael Jordan was a little baby and was handed a basketball and could dunk. Obviously, there were some physical development that had to…