Are You Swimming to Win or are You Swimming Not to Lose? (And Why the Difference
Are You Swimming to Win or are You Swimming Not to Lose? (And Why the Difference Matters.)
When we are kids the world seems like it is at our beck-and-call. There is no dream too large to consider and no goal too unrealistic. With time in our favor, and the strong wind of youthful ignorance at our backs, we feel like the world is ours to conquer.
But as we get older, the more and more people tell us that something cannot be done. That it shouldn’t be done. And at some point that child-like curiosity and enthusiasm that we can do anything fades. With so many people telling us that we are crazy for dreaming big, that we will never achieve our goals, we begin to believe them.
After a while instead of focusing on the things we want to achieve, we get stuck in thinking only about keeping and saving the things we have left. We stop taking chances, stop dreaming, play it safe. And while we get lost in the cycle of playing it safe, the swimmers around us move forward, steadily leaving us behind.
You see this difference markedly between athletes who swim to win, versus those that swim to not lose.
