Great Britain Swimming In Greatness
At some point, not too long ago, Great Britain decided to improve their “gold medal count” in the Olympics. They established a system to find people with promising athletic ability. The system also funds the development of this ability by paying for living expenses, facilities, trainers and anything else needed to achieve program goals. In this way, athletes don't have to try to be great while using a lot of energy trying to survive and trying to scrape together what is need for training. According to their definition of success (winning medals or finishing at certain levels), Great Britain has had some success. The program's relatively short duration seems to indicate the balance of credit for this success leans towards the natural talent of the athletes. According to their definition of success, Great Britain has also had some failures. The program's relatively short duration seems to indicate these failures are mostly attributable to a program philosophy that lacks understanding. It lacks understanding to ensure enough persistence is in place (commitment and process revision) and it lacks enough understanding to then have patience. This is evident in the fact that the Olympic program has abandoned some athletes due to non-achieved program goals. The reason this shows lack of understanding is that it solely and wrongfully attributes medalling or placing at a certain level to its own program and its own athletes when many other factors are involved, notably competition and the “any given day” truism.Potential Greatness Abandoned
On the one hand, the program takes full credit for successes and no blame for failures. As a result, the program abandons athletes. At a minimum, since the program is an important part of the athlete's Olympic performance, if athletes do not achieve as expected, the program should self-examine to find flaws within itself rather than simply abandoning athletes. Abandoning any group of athletes is counterproductive to all athletes in the program, thus it is counterproductive to the program's stated mission. Abandoning athletes puts undue and unnecessary mental focus and pressure on winning rather than performing. It also places a heavy burden of responsibility on each athlete for all athletes waiting to follow. This weight can overwhelm athletes on the biggest stage when its time to perform at their best. The potential for national shame inhibits the potential for national gain.What Else Can Be Learned?
1. Due to lack of understanding, Great Britain has not used a holistic optimal approach to integrate the essence of the goal* into the culture. They do not recognize that the Olympics are a metaphor for all other types of greatness the country needs. The Olympic process from start to finish must encourage the pursuit of greatness. It must not punish people for trying. When it does, it punishes the country because individuals are less likely to put their potential greatness out there in any area and are more likely to travel a safer, less innovative route. 2. When a country devotes the necessary resources to finding and developing human potential greatness, it can and will be found. This is true of higher self potential greatness and lower self potential greatness. 3. Even without the country's national support, as long as a country is not fundamentally structured to inhibit greatness or ignore greatness, greatness will come forth – not just here and there but everywhere. Since the higher self is the naturally dominant spirit within us, it is that potential greatness that will show and override the lower greatness. 4. When a country decides to solve a problem and dedicates resources, the problem can be solved relatively quickly or at least significantly reduced. Great Britain has been the example but many countries have their own versions of what Great Britain is doing – program-wise and behavior-wise, plus they have been doing it much longer.Swimmers Swimming In Greatness
Just by watching YouTube videos of athletic ability in people, we realize there are a lot of people who have Olympic potential that never make it on stage. For example, one such athletic area is swimming. In many places where people live on islands or near coasts, children grow up in the water. These people swim like fish, yet they are not represented in Olympic swimming events. Why not? Many of the current cast of Olympic swimmers would be blown out of the water. Be not be deceived by this sports analogy. The approach to greatness discussed throughout this message, including the non-diversity of greatness, is abnormally commonplace and rampant in societies in all areas of human potential, especially in those areas deemed to intellectual.For these reasons, human greatness, expressed and/or acknowledged is right now, nowhere near what it could be, should be and will be. Even in areas where the greatness of the higher self is being made manifest, there is even greater greatness. This will come through the process of unifying understanding of self. This is true for the Creator and the created.How UK Sport Funding works
Olympic sport funding: Winners and losers, sport by sport
GB Rowing Team Start: Talent Identification
How your spending on National Lottery tickets funded Britain's Olympics success *In this instance, the essence of the goal means the higher self is not in control, rather it is the lower self national ego, thus, we have the proper context for understanding the driving force behind the decisions that have followed.
