W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne echoed the same idea in their best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy: “The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.” Trying to beat the competition is the biggest mistake teams and coaches make. They’d do far better to focus on the process of high performance, which is quite different. When you focus on defeating an opponent, you’re focusing on something largely out of your control, which creates tension and easily takes you out of the present. (If it were completely in your control, it would be on your to-do list and not a
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