LION AND GAZELLE VIDEO
“Every day a lion wakes up knowing it will have to run faster than the gazelle. Every day a gazelle wakes up knowing it will have to run faster than the lion”. It does not matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. Start running.”
This is the copy from one of my favourite adverts (Gatorade, 1997); the closing tagline reads: Life is a Sport (life is a sport).
Sport is certainly a perfect metaphor for life. The context does not matter, nor does what others do or think: you run and act 🏃🏃.
If you train hard, if you give your all, no lion will be able to catch you and no gazelle will be able to escape you 😃
I may be naive and rhetorical, but I will never stop pointing out sport's educational value, not as a way to become champions but to train our desire to improve and appreciate the effort along the way.
The world of work is changing profoundly. With remote working, you are your own boss, and in my humble opinion the critical success factor is self-discipline.
The same self-discipline that sport trains when you commit yourself and work hard without anyone watching over you or making you do it.