Have you ever noticed that when your team wins you say, “we won!” but when your team loses you say, “they lost”?
It’s understandable. When your team wins, you want to be associated with that success. It’s a subtle way of suggesting that you contributed to it. But you don’t want to be blamed when the team loses.
In truth, unless you own the team or play on it, you don’t deserve the credit or the blame. But that’s okay, it’s just sports. No harm, no foul. It’s not okay, however, in your law practice where you are the owner and star player.
When you win the case you deserve credit for your skill and hard work. But what about when you lose? If you blame the judge or the jury or the evidence, you may learn nothing from your loss. If you made a mistake you may be destined to repeat it. Maybe the judge was an idiot but maybe you should have known that and prepared for it.
Personal growth starts with personal responsibility. If you blame others for your losses, you relinquish your power. You can’t change anything when someone else controls the outcome.
And yet taking all the credit for your wins doesn’t increase your power, it diminishes it. Michael Jordan wouldn’t have won championships without teammates passing him the ball or a coach setting the plays. When his team won, he freely credited his coach and teammates. When they lost, he took responsibility.
Michael Jordan never said, “they lost.” And that’s one reason why he could so often say, “we won”.
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