Progression to the top above all else and others, is a feat accomplished by few. To climb a pyramid to success simply keeps one at the peak, to create a pyramid of success is to build and learn fundamentals along the journey. The famed Pyramid of Success was created by the now deceased, former UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden, quite famously known as the person who successfully led his team to win ten NCAA championships in a twelve year span. As part of Wooden’s teaching style, he created the pyramid, not simply for coaching his team, but to build a roadmap for anyone to become a better person. In a Ted Talks lecture, Wooden describes success as “[p]eace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do
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Everyone at one time or another is their own worst enemies, where they doubt themselves, over analyze themselves, and or lack motivation to move on and change themselves. On Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, he states that poise is “[j]ust being yourself. Being at ease in any situation. Never fighting yourself” (Paragraph 18). …show more content…
This crucial building block is the defining trait that divides the risk takers and those who play it safe. Risk takers have a chance of making a mistake, one that they can learn from; cautious people tend to avoid making mistakes to a point where nothing is learned. Closing out his Ted Talks Wooden states that in his book, “They Call Me Coach,” he mentions, “two players that gave me great satisfaction, that came as close as I think anyone I ever had to reach their full potential: one was Conrad Burke, and one was Doug McIntosh”(00:15:30-00:15:39) and that “[w]hen I saw them as freshmen, on our freshmen team – freshmen couldn’t play varsity when I taught. I thought. ‘Oh gracious, if these two players, either one of them’ – they were different years, but I thought about each one at the time he was there – ‘Oh, if he ever makes the varsity, our varsity must be pretty miserable, if he’s good enough to make it.’ And you know, one of them was a starting player for a season and a half. The other one, his next year, played 32 minutes in a national championship game, did a tremendous job for us. The next year, he was a starting player on the national championship team, and here I thought he’d never play a minute, when he was – so those are the things that give you great joy, and great satisfaction to see. Neither on of those youngsters could shoot very well. But they had outstanding shooting percentages, because they didn’t force it. And neither one could jump very
Everyone at one time or another is their own worst enemies, where they doubt themselves, over analyze themselves, and or lack motivation to move on and change themselves. On Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, he states that poise is “[j]ust being yourself. Being at ease in any situation. Never fighting yourself” (Paragraph 18). …show more content…
This crucial building block is the defining trait that divides the risk takers and those who play it safe. Risk takers have a chance of making a mistake, one that they can learn from; cautious people tend to avoid making mistakes to a point where nothing is learned. Closing out his Ted Talks Wooden states that in his book, “They Call Me Coach,” he mentions, “two players that gave me great satisfaction, that came as close as I think anyone I ever had to reach their full potential: one was Conrad Burke, and one was Doug McIntosh”(00:15:30-00:15:39) and that “[w]hen I saw them as freshmen, on our freshmen team – freshmen couldn’t play varsity when I taught. I thought. ‘Oh gracious, if these two players, either one of them’ – they were different years, but I thought about each one at the time he was there – ‘Oh, if he ever makes the varsity, our varsity must be pretty miserable, if he’s good enough to make it.’ And you know, one of them was a starting player for a season and a half. The other one, his next year, played 32 minutes in a national championship game, did a tremendous job for us. The next year, he was a starting player on the national championship team, and here I thought he’d never play a minute, when he was – so those are the things that give you great joy, and great satisfaction to see. Neither on of those youngsters could shoot very well. But they had outstanding shooting percentages, because they didn’t force it. And neither one could jump very