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While not everyone is a sports fan, sports undeniably can offer us valuable lessons for life and leadership.<\/p>\n

A prime example occurred last week during the NBA basketball playoffs. The Milwaukee Bucks, who had the best record in the league, suffered a shocking and resounding defeat in the first round of the postseason.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most resonant moment of the series came after it ended, during a press conference featuring Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. Antetokounmpo, a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player and one of the world\u2019s best basketball players, was asked by a reporter if he considered the season to be a failure. His frustrated but poignant response\u00a0quickly went viral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some snippets of what he said to the reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you get a promotion every year on your job? [reporter responds no] No, right? So, every year you work is a failure, yes or no? No. Every year you work, you work towards something, towards a goal. It\u2019s not a failure; it\u2019s steps to success. There\u2019s always steps to it.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no failure in sports. There\u2019s good days, bad days. Some days you\u2019re able to be successful, some days you\u2019re not. Some days it\u2019s your turn, some days it\u2019s not your turn. And that\u2019s what sports is about. You don\u2019t always win. Sometimes other people win. And this year somebody else is going to win, simple as that.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Jordan played 15 years, won six championships. The other nine years was a failure? That\u2019s what you\u2019re telling me?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Although he did not make this distinction directly, I believe Antetokounmpo was differentiating between the concepts of failing and failure. While these two terms are closely related, they have a meaningful distinction.<\/p>\n

In life, we repeatedly fail, whether we lose a game that can only have one winner, fall short of a personal goal, or fail to meet the expectations of a boss or customer. Famously, Thomas Edison failed to create a long-lasting lightbulb over 1000 times before he succeeded. It is through these instances of failing that we\u00a0\u00a0learn from mistakes<\/a>,\u00a0 adjust our approach, and come back better and stronger the next time.<\/p>\n

Failure is different from failing. Failure comes when we stop trying after we fail; it\u2019s when we don\u2019t pick ourselves up and continue working towards our goals. Failure is also when we give in to fear and self-doubt, and use that as an excuse to not even show up the next time around.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest issues with our\u00a0education system<\/a>\u00a0and prevalent parenting style today is that we don\u2019t teach or model for kids that it\u2019s okay and normal to fail. We treat failing as something to avoid at all costs even when the stakes are objectively low, as they should be for any child in any endeavor that is not life and death.<\/p>\n

This relentless pursuit of perfection has many kids legitimately feeling that their hopes and dreams are shattered if they fail to make a sports team or get a single B in a class that doesn\u2019t really interest them.<\/p>\n

Robert Glazer, Friday Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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