Winning vs. Losing
by Leo Guinan · updated 3mo ago
Winning vs. Losing
- "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
from Wilma Rudolph - Quotes, Death & Facts
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
Second, being wrong hurts us more than being right feels good. We know from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on loss aversion, part of prospect theory (which won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002), that losses in general feel about two times as bad as wins feel good. So winning $100 at blackjack feels as good to us as losing $50
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Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
- To me, the real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don't even play the game, who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self-control and self-awareness, they need nothing from anybody else.
from Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
from Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
- “The secret to winning is learning how to lose.
That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred—and continuing to steadily march toward your potential.
Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.”from 3-2-1: On the Best Exercise, the Secret to Winning, and Dealing With Disappointment | James Clear
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
Talking about winning (even if we are identifying mistakes along the way to a win) is less painful than talking about losing, allowing new habits to be more easily trained. Identifying mistakes in hands I won reinforced the separation between outcomes and decision quality. These discussions also made me feel good about analyzing and questioning my
... See morefrom Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
- It is never about winning. It is never about losing. It is only about contributing. It is only about learning.
from 101 Design Rules by Brian Collins
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
One of my favorite quotes from Bobby Knight is: "The key is not the will to win...everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important" Everybody has the will to win. People don't have the will to practice.
from "Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love" by Bill Gurley
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago
Finite games are won with intensity. Infinite games are won with consistency.
-Shane Parrish
Leo Guinan added 5mo ago