Teaching a Good Losing Culture
A friend of mine gave me this title and asked me to write a post about it and I thought it was ridiculous. For about half a second, then I thought, 'challenge accepted'. The issue he was referring to was: when and how do we teach people to manage failure? I looked at the data and after some analysis worked out that in any given game, a team has roughly a 50% chance of losing! Like you, I was astonished by this. It means about half the time we play, we lose! But we don't spend time on helping mange this if it happens. Now, if your team is in a league that is relatively stronger, that means you will lose more than 50%. Possibly even 100%. Which is every game, when you think about it! That's awful!? Why would you continue? Especially if you never learned how to overcome obstacles. If your team is in a league which is weaker, you will win more, but then you face the injustice of going into a higher division next time, where it is likely everyone else will be stronger. And y...
