The mindset of Winners v/s the mindset of Losers

In Indian epic Mahabharata, there is an incident mentioned in which a race was organised between Kauravas and Pandavas.

Duryodhan, who was the strongest Kaurava was always jealous of Bheema, the strongest Pandava. Bheeshma(The grandfather of Kaurava and Pandavas)was the supervisor of the race.

As the race started, Bheema started to run very fast and since Duryodhan was as fast as him, he was running alongside of Bheema. Since Duryodhan had a fear that Bheema would win in the end, he applied a dirty tactic.

He obstructed Bheema with one of his legs which resulted in Bheema falling down on the ground. But Bheema soon recovered from it and started running again with full speed without wasting even a second. He ran so fast that he ultimately first caught up to Duryodhan and then defeated him in the end.

After the race was over, Bheeshma called Duryodhan and said this to him,

“Duryodhan! Instead of obstructing Bheema during the race, if you had ran much fast by focusing on yourself, you would have won. Your obstruction was able to stop him for a second only. It was of no use".

This tells us about the two types of mindsets in the world.

First, who want to win in life by obstructing others. These are the people who will never actually win- LOSERS

Second, who actually win in life by demolishing and/or recovering from damage done by the hurdles posed by the first ones- WINNERS

Now let's see how you can become a person with mindset of a Winner.

Imagine that someone is pointing a gun to your head and he says this to you.

“In 10 seconds, I will pull the trigger and you will die.”

And you ask him -

“Do I have any other option?”

he replies -

“Nope, not at all! Now get ready to die.”

What will you do now?

A. Die helplessly.

B. Try to snatch the gun and shoot the shooter with it.

A pessimist will choose option A and will be murdered brutally.

An optimist will choose option B and either one of the 3 things will happen to him.

1.He will succeed in snatching the gun and shoot the shooter down.

2. He will die trying.

3. He will succeed in snatching the gun as well as shoot the shooter but he himself will get partly injured.

Even if he die trying, he himself in the last seconds and the entire world will remember him as a hero, a brave person.

But if he dies helplessly, the entire world will not even talk about him a bit. He will be forgotten as soon as possible.

What you want to become now is entirely up to you. The urge to survive the toughest of situations and emerge victorious will make you mentally strong.

Now consider the picture given below,

Consider yourself as the person standing in the middle and the guns pointed towards you as the problems and challenges in your life. If you want to emerge victorious from such situation, what you have to do is to snatch one or two guns tops and shoot all the other shooters.

The secret to becoming mentally strong is,

1.Focus on the most important aspects of your life, try a little harder than previous day and keep doing that for the rest of your life. Have the urge to win and a fear to lose and remain mediocre for the rest of your life.Slowly and gradually, you will become mentally strong and your problems will become weak.

2. As you become expert and strong in some of the most important aspects of your life, you will be able to use that expertise in solving other small problems of your life without any difficulty and diversion.

Once you become strong mentally, your self esteem and confidence will automatically begin to come back thereby making you a WINNER.

Aryan :)