Essay: Quantifying a winning mindset

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"In war there is no substitute for victory." - General Douglas MacArthur

In life, there is no substitute for being a winner. And if you are not a winner, then you must be a loser.

A formal definition of a "loser" is a "person, team, nation, etc., that loses".[1] An informal definition of a loser is "someone or something that is marked by consistently or thoroughly bad quality, performance, etc.".[2] An even less formal definition of a loser is "a misfit, especially someone who has never or seldom been successful at a job, personal relationship, etcetera."[3] And someone who is even of worse character than a loser is a sore loser.

As a society, we quantify intelligence (IQ), yearly income, height, weight (Pounds, kilograms), blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), miles/kilometers per hour that a car travels, number of steps walked per day, golf strokes (par), taxable income and all sorts of other measurements.

Winners are not made overnight. It is a process. A person needs to weed out the loser mindset in their lives to develop a winning mindset and become a winner.

However, of all the most important metrics in life, a person's degree of having a winning mindset, our society completely falls short in measuring this metric. Take the test below and find out the degree to which you have a winning mindset.

Test how much of a winning mindset you have by finding the degree of a losing mindset you have

See also: Achievement orientation

Learn how much of a loser your are.

And once clearly identified, cut the unrepentant losers from your life now!

Below are some telltale signs that you are a loser or that someone else is loser:[4]

33% of high school graduates never read another book the rest of their lives and 42% of college grads never read another book after college.[5]

Keep a tally of how many signs of a loser you match up to below. This will let you know how much of a winning attitude you have and give you a blueprint of how to construct an unshakeable winning attitude.

1. Losers lack moral character and act ungodly. They lack kindness and have little respect for the truth. They lie frequently and endeavor to censor the truth. Losers are unconcerned with the matter of spiritual growth (See: The keys to spiritual growth and Christian maturity). They lead their lives as if they think they are God and always know what is best.

2. Losers have plenty of untapped potential because they rarely engage in personal development, don't engage in goal setting and rarely do anything personally challenging. They also hang around with other losers who rub off on them. See: Comfort zone and Social influence and Positive social influence

3. Losers think ignorance is bliss and lack curiosity. They lack a growth mindset and are happy with the status quo in their life. They don't believe in lifelong learning and rarely pick up a book. See: Knowledge and Skill

4. Losers are lazy and lack self-control (And they are often fat, lazy and take poor care of their health). See: Work ethic and Self-control and Will and Motivation and Self-motivation and Sloth (sin) and Gluttony and Nutrition and Exercise and Obesity and Health risks linked to obesity and Mental toughness and weight loss and Obesity and its negative impact on intelligence

5. Losers don't learn from their mistakes. They are rigid and inflexible. They are not adaptable people who let their experiences teach them or change due to changing circumstances. See: Openness and Change management

6. Losers don't replace their bad habits with good habits.

7. Losers major on the minor things in life and don't have a very purposeful and meaningful life. They don't set priorities and have poor time management.

8. Losers lack critical thinking skills and engage in a lot of pseudo intellectual babble. They can't be reasoned with. See: Rationality and Logic and Intellectual humility

9. Losers have a total or near total lack of openmindedness and tolerance. Losers believe their subjective opinions are facts and demand they be treated as facts. See: Intellectual humility

10. Losers have a bad attitude and always see the negative things in life and don't focus on the positive things in life and being grateful. Losers are focused on problems and not solutions and have poor problem solving skills. See: Optimism and Pessimism

11. Losers rationalize their underperformance. Their number of excuses reaches an excusitis level of pathology. See also: Rationalization

According to Herzing University, teamwork skills include: Communication skills, Time management skills, Problem-solving skills, Listening skills, Critical thinking skills, collaboration skills and leadership skills.[6]

12. Losers are not proactive. Losers see all problems in their life as being caused by other people or circumstances beyond their control. They never take personal accountability. They have a victim mentality. They are resistant to change in their life and never take the initiative to make constructive changes that will better their futures. See: Change management

13. Losers are grumblers, thin-skinned, unforgiving axe grinders, sulkers, sore losers and lack gratefulness. "Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.” - Eric Thomas. See also: Forgiveness

14. Losers are bad at relationships. Losers are vain, arrogant, feel entitled, always believe they are right and lack empathy. Losers try to lift themselves up by denigrating others. Losers don't believe in win-win relationships/transactions. They don't believe in teamwork or synergy (Creative cooperation. Working with another/others to create something greater than you could do alone).[7] Losers are not concerned with helping others. See: Friendship and Interpersonal skills and Collaboration and Agreeableness and Narcissism and Narcissistic personality disorder and Gossip

15. Losers lack self-awareness and are unable to spot loser-like behaviors in themselves. They don't know their strengths and weaknesses. They don't try to fix their weaknesses and rely on talent alone.

16. Losers lack social intelligence and cannot pick up on people indirectly/subtly telling them that they are a loser. Losers engage in denialism when people rightly tell them that they are a loser. Losers hang around with other losers rather than noble, virtuous winners (See: Cut toxic people out of your life and replace them with edifying achievers who inspire you).

17. Losers lack vision and are unable to see what could be achieved with enough resourcefulness. See also: Creativity and Forecasting and Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

18. Losers lack grit and mental toughness often give up too easily. They hate physical/intellectual competition and if they do "compete" they find a way to cheat. See also: Psychological resilience

19. Losers try too hard to please others - often in insincere ways. Losers are often gripped by fear (Fear of rejection and other's people opinions, fear of change and other fears). See also: Assertiveness

20. Losers lack courage and self-confidence. They are afraid to take risks - even calculated risks. They lack an action orientation. Or they are unrealistically optimistic, reliant on luck and fail to engage in preparation, planning and risk management.

Evaluating your score

Many college grading systems consider a D, or 65 percent, to be the lowest passing grade. If you match more than 7 characteristics of a loser, then you do not have a winning mindset and thus are not a winner. Ergo, you are a loser.

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo

How to develop a winning mindset

Victory.jpg

See also: Achievement orientation and Mindset

Videos:

Sport psychology and the mindset of champions

Usain Bolt avoids thinking about his weaknesses before a race. Sometimes he thinks about how he will celebrate if he wins.[8] See: Self-talk

Usain Bolt beating Tyson Gay and setting a 100 meter world record at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany.

See also: Sport psychology and Achievement orientation

Articles:

Videos:

Measuring mindset shifts and measuring mindset shift efforts

Vince Lombardi quotes on winning

See also: Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL from 1959–67, and of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season. He was one of football's most accomplished and respected coaches. Lombardi won five league championships during his 9 years as a coach. Lombardi was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The online forum AskANewYorker.com states: "New Yorkers do NOT let ANYTHING defeat them, get in their way, or bring them down. They're attitude is do it, do it now, whether you win or lose... If you lose, do it until you win, which really means until you succeed."[9]

Vince Lombardi quotes

  • "Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”
  • “The objective is to win—fairly, squarely, decently. Win by the rules, but still, win.”
  • “Everyone has the will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.”
  • "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?"
  • “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
  • “Winning isn’t everything, but it’s the only thing. In our business there is no second place; you’re either first, or last.”



Vince Lombardi

Winning/victory songs

machismo
Olé! Olé! Olé!

*Winning/victory songs
*Victory/celebration/happy/inspiring/fight songs - playlist
*Victorious/fight songs
*I believe that we will win

Victory quotes

Aristotle

See also: Quotes about victory

  • "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle
  • "The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile." - Plato
  • "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first." - Harry S Truman
  • "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton
  • "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." - Napoleon Hill
  • Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu
  • "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." - Zig Ziglar

Victory quotes

Jonah complex

See also: Jonah complex

The Jonah complex is the: fear of success; fear of change; fear of personal growth, fear of reaching one's potential; fear of achieving one's aspirations and dreams; and fear of meeting one's social and God-given responsibilities (golden rule, etc.).[10][11][12]

The Jonah complex may interfere with an individual's achievement orientation and hinder a person's ability to achieve organizational/societal aims and goals.[13]

The Jonah complex is more evident in neurotic people.[14][15]

Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman

Books

  • Think Like a Winner! by Dr. Walter Doyle Staples. Wilshire Book Company; New edition (March 1, 1993)
  • The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance by Dr. Nate Zinsser. Custom House (January 25, 2022)
  • Winning the Mental Game: The Playbook for Building Championship Mindsets by Dr. Amber Selking. Amplify Publishing (April 11, 2022)
  • Winner's Mindset: Peak Performance Strategies for Success by Erik Seversen, Gary Anderson, Trevor Bates, Joey Bonfiglio, J'Nathan Bullock, Michelle Cameron Coulter, Daniel Christofferson, Brandon Cullen, Riad Hechame, Aaron Hairston. Thin Leaf Press (October 20, 2021)
  • Unstoppable: Transforming Your Mindset to Create Change, Accelerate Results, and Be the Best at What You Do by Dave Anderson. Wiley; 1st edition (September 25, 2017)
  • The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure by Ian H. Robertson. Thomas Dunne Books (October 16, 2012)

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References

  1. ↑ Loser, Dictionary.com
  2. ↑ Loser, Dictionary.com
  3. ↑ Loser, Dictionary.com
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Sobering Statistics About Readers Today
  6. ↑ 7 Important Teamwork Skills You Need in School and Your Career, Herzing University
  7. ↑ Habit 6: Synergize
  8. ↑ How the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt mentally prepares for a race CNBC
  9. ↑ THE New York Attitude (state of mind), AskANewYorker.com
  10. ↑ Abraham Maslow (October 1993). "The Jonah Complex". The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. ISBN 9780140194708.
  11. ↑ Department of Cognitive Science, Chris VerWys. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Personality Psychology, Abraham Maslow
  12. ↑ Desacralizing Life and its Mystery: The Jonah Complex Revisited by Pierre-E. Lacocque. Journal of Psychology and Theology, Volume 10, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/009164718201000202
  13. ↑ Abraham Maslow (October 1993). "The Jonah Complex". The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. ISBN 9780140194708.
  14. ↑ Feist, Gregory; Feist, Jess (2009). Theories of personality (7th ed.). New York McGraw-Hill Higher Education. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-07-338270-8.
  15. ↑ Desacralizing Life and its Mystery: The Jonah Complex Revisited by Pierre-E. Lacocque. Journal of Psychology and Theology, Volume 10, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/009164718201000202 (See: JSTOR copy of the journal article)
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