68. Get up a game
It is said that John F. Kennedy’s father’s credo was, “Don’t get mad, get even.” That credo has a certain vengeful, clever wisdom in it as far as it goes, but you might go even further with this credo: “Don’t just get even—get better.”
When Michael Jordan was a sophomore in high school, he was cut from his high school basketball team. Michael Jordan was told by his coach that he wasn’t good enough to play high school basketball. It was a crushing disappointment for a young boy whose heart was set on making the team, but he used the incident—not to get mad, not to get even, but to get better.
We all have those moments when people tell us, or insinuate to us, that they don’t think we measure up—that they don’t believe in us. Some ...
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