Champion Mentality

The definition.

Sometimes you have to risk failure in a game, to win the championship at the end. Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward faster.

Sometimes you have to lose the battle if you need to win the war.

A champion

What is champion Mentality?

Champion mentality is not a new concept. If you ask Napoleon he would say, it is wise to lose some battles strategically, to win the war, eventually. If you do not take action and risk faliure, you will never succeed in anything. Look at a toddler who takes the first steps to her mom. Every one of us were such champion's in our lives. We risked a fall from a bicycle, a wrong math, or a wrong grammar when we started to speak.

Next obvious question someone should ask is why? Why should we fail in order to win?

Why Champion Mentality?

Simply put, it's about information. You really don't have to lose, rarely someone can be extremely be lucky to win every game that they start to play. But the more likely scenario in life is that we won't win every game that we play initially. At Least we refine our process, tactics, and mentality in each iteration cycle. With each success and each failure you would have more and more information to make the success more likely. This is what was meant by the iteration cycle, the wise words of entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Practice makes you perfect right?

Most important thing we should understand while doing this is that these experiments do not have to be serial. You can run ten different experiments in parallel, and gain more information in 1/10th of the time. How do we apply this 🤔 

Example of champion Mentality

Imagine you are going to do a business. You can find a capital, and start a business, and run it for 10 years to see whether you succeed or fail. Or you can start ten small businesses and divide your resources into each. And run them one year and see which one has potential and which ones are useless. And more importantly, by the time in 10 years you could have done it 10 times. Which is 100 startups against one. By all means it may not be practical for anyone to do it. But the concept is solid, and lessons that we learn from failure are far more important than success, unless you analyse. Which leads to the famous quote of mine.

"I would rather fail in life and know why, than succeed in life and not know how." -magicalmindfulliving 

I  am a bit of an extremist, and a mindfulness enthusiast. So let's apply the championship mentality to a monk!

Solo Seeker

Consider a monk. He has no possession in life. No wealth, no family, no friends. Robes that they wear are not owned by them. In every religion and society we see such individuals. They appear poor, and failures in life. What are they even doing, doing nothing valuable in life? Did you see the similarity?

These lonely philosophers deliberately fail in life. To gain more information about life itself. About themselves, about society. They play the game of success in champion mentality. And I bet, when it comes to real things which make us shiver in life, nobody can rob their happiness. Consider disease, old age and death, and the fact that happiest person in the world is a monk. I am sure 😌 answers to these problems, are out of our reach only because we are not champions like them. How about you? What are you going to do with this wisdom of championship mentality?