Larry Weidel and a co-speaker argue that leaders shape organizational energy through vision and culture. Top athletes learn from losses rather than chase wins. Long-term resilience comes from understanding the deeper meaning behind your work.
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It's how you view what you're doing cannot help but impact the energy and enthusiasm you put into it. But it starts at the beginning. And if you're in a company, that's probably one of the bigger things. When you got into leadership, that was probably something you covered in your leadership book, that the leader has got to be able to project that vision and that excitement about what the company's all about on a high level. To the people working there if it's going to be an outstanding company.
It also makes you more resilient. You're gonna be more long-term focused if you have in mind the meaning behind what you do. Larry, you said earlier, it's about winning and winning is awesome. But when you start studying sports psychology and top athletes, you'll realize that sports psychologists are actually obsessed not with winning. It's not about winning. It's about losing. It's about what you do when you lose, how you learn from your setbacks.