Losing Yourself in the Game
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Kevin Durant is an American basketball player who was recently traded to the Phoenix Suns. Because he was injured when traded, he played his first game with his new team and in a new system two weeks after the trade.
During an interview that could have been one of a thousand interviews you may have seen before that say next to nothing and are designed not to offend anyone, Durant said it will take him a few games to get comfortable again before he starts to “lose myself in the game again.”
Wow!
“Lose myself in the game.”
Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau in a post-game press conference spoke about one of his players.
“The game tells you what to do,” he said, “and he reads the game very well.”
This isn’t about “doing your job,” but about being able to step back, see what’s going on around you and make the right decisions in service to the bigger purpose—winning.
Too few people I speak with listen to what their work is telling them, let alone lose themselves in their work. They work with an industrial mindset and execute as cogs in the machinery.
Yes, basketball players need to be in the right places on the floor at the right time to create the spacing that allows someone to score. Yes, players need to be in the right position on the floor to defend the basket so their opponent scores less than they do.
What can you do to take a step back and notice what is, or isn’t going on and what can be done to change it so everyone wins? How can the poetry of motion by everyone you work with create a symphony?
Former President Nixon, describing Democratic Presidential candidates, said, “Jesse Jackson is a poet, Cuomo is a poet, Dukakis is a word processor.”
How can you inspire others to be great instead of bossing them into what to do?
How can you lose yourself in the game, read what’s going on, so you can play to everyone’s strengths, and win?
What’s possible now?
Ⓒ The Big Game Hunter, Inc., Asheville, NC 2023
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