Losing

This week I conducted a string of interviews to fill an internal position, and one of our employees repeatedly spoke words like motivation, growth, challenge, etc. He was dead set on continually learning and growing.

“Where do you think your desire to get better comes from?” I asked him.

He told me his mom continually challenged him—that they would play games and she would almost always beat him, and that made him hungry to get better but also made him unafraid of failure. Then he dropped a gem on me and said:

“I learned to love losing because it helped me win.”