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Podcast: Pickleball Therapy
Episode: Avoid confusing loss with failure - they are different | PLUS What happens when you get hit with the ball? | Pickleball Therapy | Episode 114
Description: Oftentimes when we lose a game we feel like we failed. The same is true when we win: we feel like we succeeded. This, however, wrongly conflates success/failure with winning/losing.
Here is the thing, though, you can fail completely and still win and you can 100% succeed and still lose.
Think of a pro match at the highest level. All players are highly skilled and can hit all the shots, so to speak. Yet one team wins and one team loses. Every single match ends like this. Is that a failure by the losing t...