The journey is better than the end

Les dejo este video de TED sobre una visión de éxito. ¿Qué es el éxito para vos?

En http://www.coachwooden.com/ pueden acceder a la pirámide interactiva con explicaciones sobre cada campo de la misma.

Algunas definiciones:

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Algo así como: "el éxito es estar tranquilo en saber que uno a logrado ser (para sí mismo) lo mejor de lo que era capaz de ser".

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Preocúpate más acerca de tu caráceter que de tu reputación, porque tu carácter es lo que realmente eres, mientras que tu reputación is meramente lo que otros piensan que eres.

The journey is better than the end (Cervantes).

El viaje es mejor que el resultado. Interesante lo que dice que cuando termina un juego, sería excelente no poder contar el resultado del encuentro por el mero hecho de mirar los rostros de los participantes. Así se sabría que ambos (o ambos equipos) han sido exitosos porque fueron lo mejor que pudieron ser. En tal caso es como la canción de Fito Páez que me comentó Paco: "lo importante no es llegar, lo importante es el camino".

No written work, no spoken plea can teach our youth what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves, it's what the teachers are themselves.

Ningún trabajo escrito ni un discurso, ni todos los libros podrán enseñar a los jóvenes lo que deben ser. Podrán los maestros, siendo ellos mismos.

Y el poema:

The ROAD AHEAD or the ROAD BEHIND
I think the fates must grin
as we denounce them and insist,
The only reason we can’t win
is the fates themselves have missed.

Yet, there lives on the ancient claim-
We win or lose within ourselves,
The shining trophies on our shelves can
Never win tomorrow’s game.

So you and I know deeper down
There is a chance to win the crown,
But when we fail to give our best,
We simply haven’t met the test

Of giving all and saving none
Until the game is really won.

Of showing what is meant by grit,
Of playing through not letting up,
It’s bearing down that wins the cup.

Of taking it and taking more
Until we gain the winning score

Of dreaming there’s a goal ahead,
Of hoping when our dreams are dead,
Of praying when our hopes have fled.

Yet, losing, not afraid to fall,
If bravely we have given all,
For who can ask more of a man
Than giving all within his span.

That giving all, it seems to me,
Is not so far from VICTORY.

And so the fates are seldom wrong,
No matter how they twist and wind;
It’s you and I who make our fates,
We open up or close the gates

On the ROAD AHEAD or the ROAD BEHIND

George Joseph Moriarty (June 7, 1884 – April 8, 1964)
an American third baseman, umpire and manager in Major League Baseball from 1903 to 1940. He played for the Chicago Cubs, New York Highlanders, Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox from 1903 to 1916.