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The Three Steps to Success
According to Boris Becker
Former Grand Slam Champ and world number one, Boris Becker was being interviewed on the radio one day.
“Have you always been better than everyone else”, asked the interviewer?
“No,” he replied. Although when he’s been young, he had been spotted as a prospect, although other lads his age were better and some more naturally talented. He added that sometimes we had to play the best girls because the boys were too good for him.
“So what happened to those boys,” asked the interviewer, “how do you go on to gain so much success and they didn’t?”
“Well, they just didn’t make it. Even with their natural talent, they didn’t have what it takes, because it takes much more than that,” he replied.
“So what does it take then?”, asked the interviewer.
“You’ve got to want it badly enough.”
“So, that’s the secret? Wanting it badly enough?”
“No, not just that. It takes discipline. No matter how much God-given talent, you must have the discipline to nurture and develop what talent you have. You’ve got to decide what’s most important to you and give up many other things so you can focus on that.”
