A Champion Performer

In that awe inspiring speech from Harsha he made a very profound point about how champions behave.

If you are a champion your performance is not at all proportional to the troubles/obstacles you face in your way.

A champion batsman will never say that I play well only on the Ahmedabad wicket but I’ll go 9 down against Australia at Gabba.

A champion bowler can never say that he is only good at the Indian pitches…because if a player says  so ..its not the player that’s good.

 It’s the conditions that were favorable.

I tried testing myself on this tenet of Harsha…and I found that I usually cycle my way to office almost twice a week…and this makes me feel like a champion. Riding 60 kms on a single day…and that too in the traffic of NH-58(Ghaziabad-Badrinath Highway) gives you a lot of confidence .

But there are times when I have pressure on me…work load is too much..and these are the days I give cycling a skip.

The excuse that I provide myself is that you need to have a peaceful mind to ride in that traffic….and as the work load is too much you might be thinking too much about the work and hence putting yourself in a trouble in that traffic.

But that’s not how champions do it. They play Bangladesh and Australia with the same tenacity.  They keep a peaceful mind in the toughest of situations….in either case I am not going to lessen the workload while I am reaching office..so the excuse stands null and void.

Thanks Harsha for the beautiful lesson…Work load or no work load…I’ll perform.

PS: Cycling can be replaced with any activity that you feel like extrapolating this tenet to.