For apart from war and preparation for war, it’s in competitive athletics that the Clausewitzian combination of a distilled past, a planned present, and an uncertain future most explicitly come together. With fitness more fashionable now than in the age of the great duke, there’s more participation in games than ever before. But what does that get

My football coach put it best. He told me, “You didn't come to this university to learn how to play football. You came here to learn how to be a better person. So this season you'll learn to be a better person by learning how to be a better football player.”

It’s not what we get from winning; it’s who we become. A focus on the process means noticing how we compete, what we do when we play our best, and knowing our own recipe for success. The process is also about who we are becoming, what we excel at, and learn from. The process means addressing effort, teammates, other people excelling, how we handle