Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Are you winning or losing?

8 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue (YouTube video by Vishen Lakhiani) arguing entrepreneurs should view setbacks as learning opportunities rather than wins/losses. Emphasizes that entrepreneurs gain practical education from mistakes, there are no straight-line growth trajectories, and maintaining a growth mindset (playing to win rather than playing not to lose) helps move a business forward and avoid protecting past successes.

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Look, you're not winning or losing. You're either winning or learning. And I gotta tell you, myself and many of the other entrepreneurs we work with, we've got the most expensive, practical MBAs in history from the lessons we've learned from making mistakes and realize there are no straight lines in nature. That's a human creation I see only on hockey stick projections of startups. It is a crazy road that we've all been on and any entrepreneur you've ever read about has had their ups and downs. And so what's important is for us to continue to be looking forward and to do that. The mindset is one around are you playing not to lose? Are you playing to win? And I got to tell you, if you've had particularly successes, you can start to have enough that you start wanting to protect what it is you have. It starts with making sure that you've got the right mindset, a right growth mindset, and moving the business forward.