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Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Self-Improvement?
Progress is good when we are younger, but as we grow older, the rules of the game of life change.
Sports at its core has so much in common in the self-improvement world. Athletes are required to not only improve themselves in the sport they are playing but also to work on themselves, work with their team, and work on the other areas of their lives.
Time and again we see many sports teams achieve their top prize of getting a championship cup, only to be ultimately dethroned the next season or perhaps a few seasons later.
Some people think that the opposing team fighting the champs was strictly a better team, but little do we know there is more at work here.
Pat Riley, a hall of fame coach who has brought six teams — including one he was in himself — to the NBA championships coined a special symptom. It’s famous throughout the sports world and is known as the “Disease of more.”
Athletes are people of course and as people, we always want more. It’s ingrained into our head not to have a massive sense of greed but that we’re always looking forward and progressing our lives. For athletes, the “more” at the beginning was the championship cup, to bask in that glory and have the perks that come along…
