Mark MacLeodFounder, Limitless.ceo · The Startup CEO Coach | Helping ambitious CEOs & founders scale world-changing companies without sacrificing their health, happiness, purpose, or humanity

How we grow: through defeat #ceo #growthstrategies

27 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Mark MacLeod quotes Rilke on why defeat matters: "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." He argues setbacks are how we grow, using athletes as an example. They lose regularly but use it to improve.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. This is a quote from Rainier Maria Rilke I really love this quote. I love it because it's aspirational and at the same time it grounds us in reality we will always be defeated. Defeats, setbacks, these are when we grow. Professional athletes lose all the time. They expect it. Despite having massive self belief and thinking they're capable of being the champion, they know they will be defeated and they use those setbacks to grow.