Calm, confident and focused

Author: Zhao Danjian

I don't know football, although I like it a little inexplicably, maybe because I have a Spanish friend who was a young member of Real Madrid's junior officer corps, who later retired due to injury, but he has always had a love for football, which has affected me to a greater or lesser extent; Maybe it's because of the kind of running, fighting, attacking and defending carefully on the wide green field, which seems to be extremely hearty; Perhaps because in these races of sweat and tears, and even blood, there are countless philosophies of life...... Anyway, I found out that I kind of like football.

During the 2018 World Cup, teams from all over the world often spoke before the game, expressing the spirit, ideas, and direction of struggle of each team, each with its own merits, and what impressed me the most was the speech of the French team before the championship final with Croatia. There are three words that are important to us to beat them – calm, confident and focused. I believe these three words are our magic weapon to win. ”

Calm, confident, and focused, the phrases in this row are easy to remember, and I immediately remember them, and because the philosophy contained in them is far more useful to me than those bold words. At that time, I didn't know who was going to win the championship and I didn't favor any one team. Before that, I didn't pay attention to the French team.

Those three words drilled into my head at that moment.

Chew it carefully, and feel their deeper meaning more and more

--Calm, how important, the situation on the pitch has changed abruptly, there is no eternal winner, there is no eternal loser, any negligence, carelessness, may lose the overall situation, this is especially evident in this World Cup, many world-recognized football teams, unexpectedly out of the game, look at those scenes, who would have thought that the team with clear skills under them, but finally eliminated them. And the whole situation reversed, there were many games in the last 20 or 30 minutes, or even a few minutes, a seemingly easy but actually full of gunpowder penalty kick, which was decided.

--Self-confidence, without it, I'm afraid I can't take a single step, Although the court is full of accidents and accidents, but the probability of mathematics is always there, and the strength of technology will eventually be known. I have inadvertently paid attention to Didier Deschamps, the French champion 20 years ago, today's coach of the French team, in some games, his self-confidence comes from his bones, and his self-confidence has a profound impact on his players.

--Focus, well, with calm, with confidence, there is only one thing to do, concentrate on every step of the foot, focus on every ball coming and going. That's enough.

In HBO's Warren Buffett documentary, Warren Buffett tells a story: Bill Gates's father asked Gates and Warren Buffett to write a word on a piece of paper about what had the greatest impact on their success.

THEY FLIPPED THROUGH THE PAPERS, AND THEY ALL HAD THE SAME WORD WRITTEN ON THEM -- FOCUS.

If you look at those who have achieved great things, there is no one who does not possess this quality: after identifying the goal, he will move forward with determination, and no matter how much interference he has, he will not change.

Calm, confident and focused, these three words are equally applicable to life.

When we face this rapidly changing modern world, sometimes there is not such a fair life, we can always stay calm, no matter what we gain or lose; Always have self-confidence, no matter whether you succeed or fail; Put aside all the distractions around you, focus on what you really think, concentrate on what you do, and then everything has continued on the track of reason without losing enthusiasm, and now it is time to wait for the verdict of time. And time, without a doubt, is probably the most just thing in the world, there is no failure for no reason, there is no easy success, in the end, time will give a fair judgment.