Winners Win. They also lose. But being a winner is a mind-set, not a function of the last deal or trade.
Not that you can separate humanity into Winner and Losers. Losers certainly lose before they even start precisely because they have a losing mind-set. And they’ll give up after one (and increasingly less likely) more losing deals or trades – making way for the next loser. They treat every set-back as a calamity rather than just something else to be sorted out on the way. They look for problems not with an eye to mitigation or remediation, but with a view to concocting a rationale for giving up.
The 3rd category and by far the largest in number are those that never attempt anything out of the ordinary: The very definition of average. They neither succeed nor fail and are none the worse for it in themselves being largely oblivious of their condition with only infrequent fleeting feelings of lack and emptiness of something ineffable which is what their lives could have been, and still could be if they would only wake up. But the vast majority sleep peacefully on.
Having a winning mind-set is not enough in itself either. An idiot can have (or kid themselves they have) a winning mind-set. No. It needs a genuine belief in bringing something about; that it can be done and that you can do it, somehow. You’ll find a way. Nothing else matters. Focus and determination without requiring effort of motivation. Tis is key. Winners don’t get flagged and tired while the idea is unfulfilled, they persevere with genuine pleasure in the act of bringing it about and with a sense of enjoyment. If it’s hard work, you’re doing something wrong and you’ll stop at the flimsiest excuse. If that’s the case, find something else to champion. And finally taking action to bring it about. It’s that final bit that separates the winners from those that just tried and failed.
