Posted 9/16/2018 6:21 PM (GMT 0)
Dan Mullen is the head football coach of the University of Florida football team ("The Gators"). In today's sports section of the local newspaper ("The Gainesville Sun") he talked not only about his team's victory in its game yesterday, but also spoke about how he thinks players should play the game:
"Sometimes we're looking at the guys' eyes when they're coming into this program, and they fear losing and they're relieved by winning. You can't be successful that way. You can't act that way. You can't even think that way. You have to go out and play hard because you love to win, not because you're afraid to lose."
Well, perhaps that is indeed good advice, but, frankly, and the reason that I'm throwing this out now for discussion, is that it pretty much runs counter to the attitude that I, at least, have almost always had toward waiting for and then viewing my test results.
If the results were good, my attitude has usually been "Whew, those results are good, what a relief!" rather than "Those results are good, yay, wonderful!" That would seem to run counter to the coach's philosophy.
So, does it really matter, that is, how we react, as long as the results are good? Would it be better for us to react with an "ALL RIGHT! GREAT RESULTS!" rather than a "Whew, so glad they're okay!" (?)
Clearly, how we react to learning test results will have no impact on the results themselves. But would examining how we do react to them make any difference in our psychological or emotional well-being?
Food for thought?