Yesterday I wrote about a Jordan Burroughs quote on sacrifice. In this quote he explains that sacrifice is both doing more and doing less. Today I want to juxtapose that concept with Seth Godin’s perspective on goals in the context of setting goals in youth wrestling. Godin breaks goals down into two types: Give up […]
Jordan Burroughs is the greatest American freestyle wrestler of this generation. He is an Olympic wrestling champion, a 4x world champion, and recently just won his 8th world medal in total. Not only is wrestling the world’s oldest and greatest sport, it’s also the hardest. Undoubtedly, it’s safe to say he knows a little something […]
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published a study on how children persist in the face of challenges. The authors of the research worked with 520 children ages 4 and 5 years old. The goal of the research was to examine how adult role models impact a child’s […]