{"id":292,"date":"2019-09-28T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2019-09-28T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T17:32:15","slug":"what-separates-champions-from-almost-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/28\/what-separates-champions-from-almost-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Separates Champions from \u2018Almost Champions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2016\/09\/what-separates-champions-from-almost-champions.html\">https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2016\/09\/what-separates-champions-from-almost-champions.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting article on what makes some people &#8220;champions&#8221; and others &#8220;almost-champions.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essentially the difference is that &#8220;champions&#8221; generally had these attributes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They chose the thing they were most interested in, out of several options\u2014it wasn&#8217;t &#8216;forced&#8217; upon them<\/li><li>They found as much meaning in the &#8220;practicing and training&#8221; part, as in the &#8220;competing and winning&#8221; part<\/li><li>Their focus was on being better than they were before, not on being better than some external benchmark or on specific people or competitors<\/li><li>They felt supported and empowered by their mentor(s), rather than pressured and controlled<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose when it comes to really young kids\u2014like, before they&#8217;ve really had the chance to &#8220;explore different interests&#8221;\u2014or, for certain types of situations, you might have a bunch of &#8220;almost champions&#8221; all competing against each other, in which case you&#8217;ll get a &#8220;champion&#8221; produced from that group anyway \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then again I guess that&#8217;s not really a recipe for long-term greatness in any field\u2014eventually you&#8217;ll come up against people with actual &#8220;champion&#8221; mentality as measured by those standards and that&#8217;s presumably where these differences would show themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2016\/09\/what-separates-champions-from-almost-champions.html Interesting article on what makes some people &#8220;champions&#8221; and others &#8220;almost-champions.&#8221; Essentially the difference is that &#8220;champions&#8221; generally had these attributes: They chose the thing they were most interested in, out of several options\u2014it wasn&#8217;t &#8216;forced&#8217; upon them They found as much meaning in the &#8220;practicing and training&#8221; part, as in the &#8220;competing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,5,50,51],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-articles","tag-champins","tag-psychology","tag-success","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}