How Often Do You Lose?

The best winners know how to lose

The key do being a great competitor is understanding how to lose. You don’t have to like it but you have to experience it and deal with it. In a way, that makes you better.

How often do you lose?

No one wins all the time, those who are willing to put it on the line and lose are also the ones who later will win.

You can’t have winners without losers.

How often do you lose?

People who hide away from competition be it in sport, in business or in life are scared to lose. They think losing is attached to their identity. Losing is something winners do on the road to accomplishing something.

The biggest winners are the ones who were willing to lose and put it all on the line. How are you putting it all on the line? What are you risking to lose?

Are you even competing for anything? Or are you just coasting through life?

Playing Ping Pong I lost for the better part of two years before I won against my friend. It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s whether you show up tomorrow better than you were today.

Find your Garth

In tennis I lost games against my friend Garth for three and a half years before beating him. Did I hate losing? Yes. Would I have kept playing if all I did was win against an opponent who was worse than me? Probably not. Losing makes you want to fight another day. Makes you want to get better every day.

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Losing is a brilliant teacher.

In business we’ve lost more proposal than I can count. But now, several years later, we’re winning a lot of proposals than we used to. I don’t think we’d have the success rate we have now without the prior failure rate.

Losing is a precursor to winning as long as you don’t give up.

How often do you lose?