Find out what made Coach John Wooden such a powerful influencer from the very people he mentored one-on-one in his now famous den John Wooden was the men’s basketball coach at the University of California at Los Angeles. His teams won 10 NCAA National Championships in the space of 12 years, including 88 straight games. He was named the coach of the century by ESPN. John Wooden ended his UCLA coaching career with a 620–147 overall record and a winning percentage of .808. I talked about Coach Wooden’s leadership lessons in a recent article and what made him a great coach here. This metaphor structure says that success is “…”. You can put whatever place you would envisage your successful vision of yourself right after that. So you might see yourself on a beach in Mexico, or on a chairlift on a Wednesday (because you don’t have to work anymore!) or even with a happy family, if that’s what your vision of a successful life really looks like. 2. Success is a Poison Chalice I know you can't please everyone, so on this issue I haven't tried. I have only wanted to please God. Poor Communication Kills: Ted refuses to confront Nate about violating his trust, hoping that Nate will just apologize on his own. When he finally does confront Nate, Ted is completely apologetic about Nate's misplaced feelings of resentment, despite having ample opportunity to call out Nate on his bullshit. Thanks to this, he unintentionally validates Nate and sends him on his Start of Darkness.

He claims that Ted abandoned him after all the attention he gave him the previous season, when he knows that Ted has been busy dealing with his own mental health issues and had no idea how Nate was feeling because Nate never reached out to him. Nate also refused every opportunity to bring this up through the Diamond Dogs, despite the club having been formed partly for his benefit. Walk through Coach Wooden’s tested Pyramid of Success framework that has been responsible for creating more champions, building more companies, and changing the lives of its followers than perhaps any other success plan everThat man is legendary college basketball coach John Wooden. Not only did he earn himself a place in the basketball hall of fame, he was also something of a philosopher. Coach Wooden created the pyramid of success, a framework that combines many different qualities that contribute to a successful mindset. Call-Forward: Beard tells Ted that if he keeps "holding all this in, I'm afraid your mustache is gonna pop off". In the non-canonical animated Christmas short "The Missing Christmas Mustache", Ted's mustache does disappear from his face. I just started this today, and it is hella disorienting. Leaving a fraction of this foreword by the Admiral as a note to my future self as much as anyone else reading this:

I once heard team spirit as a willingness to lose oneself in the group for the good of the group.... Willingness is more like, 'I will if I have to'. Eagerness communicates in the attitude of 'I'll be willing to sacrifice personal accomplishments for the good of the team'." So he stopped using willingness and used eagerness instead. Manly Tears: Nate cries when Ted finally confronts him about how upset he is. Yeah, Nate's an asshole, but he's in real pain. Our championships came as the by-product of meeting lesser goals of measurable, year-over-year improvement.I know Game Of Thrones has become something of a joke after the response to the final season, but one thing it modeled very effectively was using the penultimate episode of each season as a climax, allowing for a finale that would simultaneously reflect on the season that came before it and gesture toward the future. And that’s what Ted Lasso really needed, because across the board the actual resolution that comes after Richmond’s promotion is rushed and frankly confounding. Where those revolutions take them will have to wait, however. Like the Greyhounds, we’re heading into the offseason. But a final question: Where will a third season take Ted? He loves being the Greyounds’s coach but, two years in, he remains a bit rootless. He misses his son, if not Kansas itself (though it might be nice to return to a place where no one asked you to clarify if you wanted “still” water). At the end of the match, a Greyhounds announcer notes that the team still hasn’t won a major championship, which sounds like the show setting up what comes next. But at what point will Ted have accomplished all he needs to accomplish? Or will that day come? Is this the story of an American finding a new home or taking a sojourn? We’ll find out, but not soon. That was important to Wooden. From the book, you can tell he didn't care so much about wins or losses as it was about knowing that his players did their very best. A signed print of the pyramid of success appears on an office wall in Ted Lasso, the Emmy-award winning comedy about an American Football coach hired to manage a British football team. Respect without fear. May come from being prepared and keeping all things in proper perspective. The Pinnacle COMPETITIVE GREATNESS: