Updating my blog after some time.I wrote this article for my office magazine. Its mainly on different ways people use to win and how its a matter of business ethics and professional success.
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Winning – a feeling that would have made you feel on top. Nothing beats that feeling not many anyhow, whether its that class you topped, match you won, the milestone you achieved etc. It would have been really nice if winning was easy as participating in the competition but its not always. When the stakes are high losing can be an entirely opposite experience. Situations do come up occasionally when one’s skills and handwork are just not enough. Call it the game of competition or a test of life that one gets pitted with a situation which requires that something extra in an order to win which some refer to as the killer instinct (or a will to win at all cost). Does possessing a killer instinct make one inherently bad? If so then how come so many successful people tend to be associated with it? Doesn’t the end justify the means and it’s a necessary part of professional life where sometime results are all what that matters and the urge to succeed can make the person go that extra-mile.
Even better is that possessing killer instincts makes a person forget his own short-comings and instead focuses him on his goals with a dedicated interest.
But what’s the person’s belief system behind it. The win at all cost attitude leads to attachment to your goals and un-attainment of it would be an obvious pain. Over-focus on winning may result in foregoing the enjoyment of journey. Put your pride at stake and fear of losing may as well creep in along with a will to win.
Ofcourse there is nothing wrong in trying but what if one is sub-consciously following a wrong belief system then how can they be termed as killer instincts with just an outer demeanor of trying to win. As some soccer coaches recently got the flake for pushing the players too far as the whole process was found to be a slow poison to one’s self-esteem when things are targeted beyond reality and an attempt is made through wrong means and there has been a call for fairplay and being graceful in defeat.
In today’s fast world when things can be quickly forgotten and people have limited time the goals can become more important than means. Its still better then to try and find out and know the reasons of defeat rather than give up mid-way.
The killer instincts should then rather be used to sharpen oneself so that the goal reaches you rather than you reaching out for the goals, but does this all work out practically. Atleast by the time one got things he would be deserving of many more things rather than the odd victory as the process would have made him much stronger, and winning would be one’s character and appear natural rather than killer instincts but again it depends how far can one go for a win.
