The chances are good that you know exactly where you are too short after you have lost a big pitch, an interview or in Billie Jean King’s world. But have you ever asked yourself after winning why you won exactly?
“People continue to think, they learn more from failure,” said the 81-year-old tennis legend exclusively Assets On the power of the women’s sports summit of eleven beauty. Instead, she says that the top 1% “learn how to win”.
Like gen z, the big fans of are manifest Success, King agrees that there is power to think positively. “If you believe that you are a failure, you will fail. If you think you are a winner, you will win,” said the American former tennis player in the world No. 1.
But in your eyes there is more to manifest than saying yourself “I’m lucky“Until it becomes reality. Logic, the reason why people who call themselves winners do well, is that they are Anaylze, what their strengths are and what they gain – and they indicate it twice.
“I want people to be careful when winning: Why did I win? And that is really important, because they can continue to build, build and build when they get older in life.” king explained.
“Which sentence did I write well? Were you friendly with others? All of these things are building blocks to live a better life.”
The way of thinking that Billie Jean King made a champion – again and again
Before she became a global icon, 39 Grand Slam title won, campaign for Same paymentAnd then King always founded the women’s tennis association, and always had the innate conviction that she would be successful.
Despite a child from Long Beach, California, with a racket, a dad, a little money father, a little money and hardly any coaching King would say that she was intended to become the star she is today.
“This is how I thought as a junior player: every time I won a junior match, it was just a springboard that was the number one in the world” Assets. “I never thought or cared about junior tennis. Everything I did was to be the world as an adult.”
This long-playing mentality meant that small victories on the way were not the endpoint were the study material. Just like after a loss, she would wonder: what did I do right? What can I replicate?
Fortune’s Orianna Rosa Royle sat with BJK on the power of the women’s sports summit, which was presented by eleven beauty.
The habit became a cornerstone of her success, but she says that she was really put into practice during one High-stake-wimbledon match Against Tracy Austin in 1982. King Austin defeated for the first time, although she was twice as old and was a year away from retirement.
King was fully aware that Austin knew all the movements of the king and would expect her starting point (a cross-court shot). So King knew that the only way to win was to take her weakest shot on the line.
“I knew before I hit this ball, if I didn’t get it, I would probably lose the match. If I did it, I would probably win,” she says. She decided on it – and it worked.
This moment reinforced a core conviction that has been pursuing her since then: Success is about understanding exactly what it takes to win. “You need to know why you win,” she says. “I no longer learn when I lose. I learn more when I win. I think because it learns to learn how to win, not how to lose.”
For King, feedback is not just something that you use after failure. It is also the habit of asking a highly tough questions.
“Everyone should really think about them with their own lives,” she says. “What is your strength? Play it for it.”
