Exploring The 'We're All Winners' Concept

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Molten

I've always thought its how we deal with both success and failure that decides how we do. I guess if I decide that if I get an A for this class, I won't work as hard on the next one...your logic is true. But I find this to simply not be the case in people who truly succeed. People who succeed in life keep trying hard regardless of whether or not they win. I look at success as more of a desire in this scenario. Give a kid a taste of success and they usually work harder. In any case, they don't give up.

I've heard your argument several times in this thread and I've never witnessed it happening in life. Perhaps I don't have enough data to say that nobody works that way, but I can certainly say alot of people don't.

Please note that I do not equate success and winning, nor failure and losing. You can win a competition and still fail at the really important things, as well as lose a competition and succeed at the important things.

But "we're all winners" implies that nobody loses. Without winners and losers there is no competition ... it's just an exhibition. Many people put social stigmas to winning and losing, but in truth, all competitions have them and in order to improve you need to look at your successes and failures within the competition (not wins and losses) so that you may improve yourself.