Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13 | Issue 643 |
Craig Impelman Speaking | Championship Coaches | Champion's Leadership Library Login | |
"WORK FOR YOUR OWN APPROVAL, NOT THE APPROVAL OF OTHERS." (JIA JIANG AND JOHN WOODEN) The idea of not basing your actions and happiness on the approval of others continues to grow in importance as more and more youngsters (and adults) are affected by the approval of their peers and likes and dislikes on social media.
Coach Wooden emphasized:
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, as your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
In his book, Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success, Coach wrote:
"Do not be vulnerable to praise or criticism from outsiders. Your strength of consistency depends on how you let praise and criticism affect you. Some of it will be deserved and some of it will be undeserved. Either way, don’t get caught up in the opinions of others. When you are honest in your self-analysis, your opinion should count the most."
In his book, "Rejection Proof",( https://www.rejectiontherapy.com/100-days-of-rejection-therapy ), Jia Jung talks about the freedom to accept yourself:
"Constant approval-seeking causes us to bend ourselves in ways that are not authentic. We feel compelled to put on a façade to appear happy, competent, sophisticated, and worthy so we might be accepted by other people. We become someone very different from whom we were meant to be.
In the end, what we really need is not acceptance from others, but acceptance from ourselves. In fact, being comfortable with who we are should be a prerequisite—not the result—of seeking others’ approval. We should all have the knowledge that who we are is good enough to get a yes from ourselves."
Can this be taught to young people?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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