Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it! But those who remember history and only bask in that glory saying it is legacy, become history themselves (in a negative way).
Say Hockey and any Indian will be proud to flaunt “Dhyan Chand”, but that was 1936, where is Indian hockey today? Football – and Brazilians will flaunt Pele and half a dozen other names.
Come a world Championship or Olympics – and the truth comes out periodically giving these nations a reality check. “We are still supreme and will win it the next time, don’t worry, we are skilled and the world has still not caught on to us.” Both these nations have had sketchy victories for whenever they have basked in the past glory, they have had to justify their existence on the past glory itself and describe the current loss as a skirmish. They remain in a world of illusion of being winners, instead of accepting that they are losers.
Look at the conversations around you, and you will see a language of justification. Instead of learning to try harder to succeed, and regain what has been lost, we like to behave like winners. We simply refuse to accept the state we are in and instead try to justify ourselves as winners.
Remember one famous line “Forget the past, and don’t worry about the future, concentrate on the present and you will succeed in everything.” They call this `The Power of Now’
No wonder the individuals and companies that follow the above principles have the right recipe for success, and those who don’t make it say “The Grapes are Sour!”, because they lost the art of focus.
Winners Continue, Losers Beware!
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