Bet on yourself
It's one of the most famous slogans in basketball. "Bet on yourself," says Fred Van Vleet. He's building a whole brand on it, a brand based on hard work and all-round toughness. Bet on yourself. It carries both the connotation of pouring all your efforts into your own success and the recognition that success is never a given. It's a bet. In Thinking in Bets , Annie Duke explores the idea that most of our decision making is like placing bets because we rarely have all the information we need to guarantee success. This is a great summary of the book. The key idea is that we need to separate our decision making process from our results if we want to make better decisions. You can get good results from a bad decision and you can get bad results from a good decision. But you can't get consistently good results from consistently bad choices. At NLP Canada Training , I teach people the skills they need to bet on themselves, to make good choices based on the results...