(166) Saturday July 10, 2010
Plank Boys wind flags that say "Thank you, Dona Tota" and "In the obelisk ball." Doña Tota no consolation and left in ball is the obelisk, with nothing to celebrate. One word sums it up: sad. Even anger. Jorge Valdano was right "in the end the Germans always win." Tevez clarito said "what are you going to analyze a four-nil?". "It's football, that's football." We had to lose. What are you doing? Not a bad idea to "die with our" and applaud the eleven drop everything and know how to use: no kicking, scandals, complaints.
There is something that goes beyond football, and that has to do with life, but includes it, because damn if football is part of our lives. Today we would like to say two words around what we call success and failure.
say that at the entrance to Centre Court at Wimbledon is a sign posted with the verse of the poem 'If' by Kipling: "When you cross this door, you will know the success or failure. Treat those two impostors just the same contempt. " Wimbledon is perhaps not the most suitable place to give lessons in ethics. There this thing called success equals millions of dollars, and losing a little less. But Kipling's phrase goes. Times are
where success is all that counts. The failure is seen and lived with the frustration of a fatal design. The thing is old. The Greek Moira, fate, foreshadowed our future in terms of success and failure, victory or defeat. Nothing in between. Succeeding
"a", "ya", that seems to be our credo.
most elementary pedagogy teaches us that we learn through a series of experiments / trials in which there are two aspects that are complementary rather than antagonistic: trial and error, as two sides of same coin. It is said that Thomas Edison made many attempts to invent the light bulb filament. I once asked him how he managed to continue after so many failures. "Failures? "He replied I do not know what you're talking. After failed 999 bombitas la número 1000 funcionó, por lo tanto ahora sé 999 maneras de cómo no se debe hacer una bombita”.
Por un lado es equivocado pensar que el éxito queda fijamente asociado al acierto y el fracaso al error. Por el otro, vivimos en la creencia de que el acierto y el error son dos cosas independientes y separables. Ni siquiera tenemos una palabra que incluya y englobe a cada término como dos aspectos de un mismo proceso. De este modo imaginamos que lo mejor para asegurar el éxito/acierto es eliminar el error/fracaso lo antes posible.
Incluir el acierto y el error, el éxito y el fracaso como partes de nuestro crecimiento significa reconocer que somos aprendices de la vida. Piaget, quien dedicated his life to know how to learn, said that "an error corrected by the subject may be more fruitful than immediate success.
The failure plays a role: to highlight what we know and what we need to learn. No doubt it is gratifying to succeed and succeed in our goals, and enjoy each accomplishment. The problem occurs when the emphasis on similar charges dimension succeed everything is reduced to meeting that goal. A burn bridges. Then all the universe is personal and interpersonal conditional on the success or failure. "I have success, then I am." I failed, then there I was.
How different work a society where mistakes were allowed space to promote and "weather" to facilitate the release and freedom from conviction for failure, pressure to succeed forever. "Do not fear mistakes, there are none," he would say, Mile Davis. Can you imagine a school education and with this look? Could it be true in the competitive and capitalist society?
"Fame is a misunderstanding and perhaps the worst! Borges said. Cold comfort? Maybe. For Oscar Wilde "When the gods want to punish the men, we realize the wishes ..."
What if our defeat purify sports domes bureaucratic and cleaning the filthy business of football to return to being a truly popular sport? What if, as proposed by Bayer, this was the best opportunity to say "Enough Grondona?
Success and failure, two impostors. To think, right? "No, success does not wish it on anyone. Happens to you what the climbers, who kill to reach the summit and when they arrive, what do they do? down, or trying to lose quietly, with as much dignity as possible, "said García Márquez
Soccer as a metaphor for life can help us think what we are and what happens to us: Do not ever give up what we love, win nice playing, not in any way, spoiling the ball, holding a truant, pulling pipes. Dribbling the imposters, also bypassing the victory and defeat.
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