The Two Mindsets of Life: Preventing Failure or Pursuing Success

There are basically two mindsets you can choose for how you approach the vision you have for your life. You can go through life with a mindset of trying to prevent failure or with a mindset trying to pursue success. The mindset of trying to prevent failure is one that focuses on threats. It causes […]

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Chess Grandmaster Explains the Path from Ambition to Success or Failure

Scottish chess grandmaster Jonathan Rowson provides the perfect explanation of why sometimes ambition leads to success and why other times it leads to failure. I came across Rowson’s explanation as I was reading NY Times Bestselling author Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed “. Tough quotes Rowson as saying the following about ambition: “When it […]

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John Wooden Quote Perfectly Explains Why Sore Losers are Also Failures

There are three types of losers. 1) Those who accept a loss, but don’t learn from it. 2) Those who accept a loss and learn from it. 3) Those who don’t accept a loss and don’t learn from it. Furthermore, there is no fourth category of those who don’t accept a loss but do learn […]

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