Friday, October 9, 2009

Wooden

I read the beginning of the book, Wooden on Leadership by Coach John Wooden. I have so far read the whole introduction which is a short autobiography of his life. He says how he measures success is the most important thing. He seems so far like he is different than many other coaches. He never cared weather they won or lost, he cared weather they tried 100% and played their hearts. He is also different because he never listened to rankings or anything like that. He never let himself loose sleep fearing the other team. He said he wanted the other team to loose sleep worrying about them. Winning-wise, one of his most unsuccessful seasons was the year of 59-60. Their last game they played was the one that determined weather they broke .500 or not. Spectators said that the program was going down the drain but Wooden thinks that team was very successful. They just didn't have that much talent, but they gave they're all. In just four years, his next team went 30-0.

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  1. I'm reading about John Wooden as well and it's interesting to see that John Wooden was so successful yet humble at the same time!

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