Of all the tennis matches I've watched Coco Gauff play, she could have won all of them, should have won all of them. She has had the ability for years.
Of all the American football games I've watched the Coach Prime Colorado Buffaloes play, they could have won most of them, should have won most of them, including during the 2023 season.
Toughness is Khekhness, the ability to understand self from a dynamically balanced perspective that allows us to understand we have more strengths mentally-emotionally-spiritually than weakness. We can know this because we have been working on both. This is the always ready warrior mentality, that allows us, no matter the set of conditions, including the adversaries, to remember we always have the ability, thus the opportunity to come-over and overcome.
A firm grasp of this requires intentional effort applied towards increasing amounts of foundational knowledge of self regarding who we are, where we came from, why we are here, what this is all about, what is most important, what is the heaven we are doing, what is the hell we are doing.Lack of mental toughness is easy to see as it plays out in sports, but it applies to all aspects of life all the time. If this were not so, societies would not exist. They would wither like plants grown under artificial lights when exposed to the greater natural conditions, greater truths, greater laws all must follow.
Coco and the Buffaloes are used, simply because many are aware of them, thus they make for good metaphors of lessons we all need.Impact Of Teacher On Student
A primary limiting factor in achieving what we are capable of, is coaching. That is coaching by any sense and form of the word and at any point in life, directly, indirectly, consciously, subconsciously.
Thus coaching entails all influences that influence our minds-emotions-spirits-bodies.
The coaching influences on a student includes coaching of the coach that has been been received in all forms, past and present.
In other words, as students progress, coaches must progress in their knowledge in order to coach the student for and through the challenges of the next level. Actually, coaches must be at least two steps (stages) ahead of the student.
Everyday Wins & Losses
The preparation-practice stage for contests and battles is the training ground of everyday life, its circumstances, its conditions.Therefore, if we are not mentally tough off the playing field battlefield, we won't be when mentally toughness is needed even less. Yes, that's right. Mental toughness is needed less on the playing field battlefield, than mental toughness is needed at all other times.
Prime Example
In recent times, Black people have taken a lot of “L's” when dealing with other humans.It's not that others have greater mental toughness. Instead they have a few habits they prioritize based on their racial ethnic identity. This limits their focus, and focuses concentrates their energies, resources. This is not secret sauce.
Black people have mental toughness to survive in an adversarial system filled with adversaries; however we no longer exhibit the mental toughness to thrive.
This is because we have ignored the knowledge to come-over overcome because we continue to listen to wrong coaches because we have prioritized sub-optimal identifiers that divide and conquer us.
Clearly and simply we must choose one or two optimal identifiers of self, and these two in any order, must be the same for all black people who wish to win in any arena against any opponent and any rules.
We must recapture the awareness of the child in the television commercial about football fans. The child is a baby in a crib who is dressed in Baltimore Ravens fan gear**, who stands up and says, I was born ready. This says it all and shows it all.We were all born with the equipment and knowledge that we were born ready for this life, during this period of time, in the location we are in; otherwise we would not have been called forth to take on the human cloak...and we would not remain unless we were clearly serving the purpose of good or serving the purpose of evil.
No it can't be because we are both, because the lukewarm are spat out, done with, left to their own vices, devices, divisiveness.
**The Raven is a symbol of the phoenix who rises, seemingly improbably, from the ashes. A phoenix, of which there are many, are reborn ready. The phoenix is the group name, the race name of those who are coming ready-baked from the oven of heaven, so when they get here they are already ready, because in the any-means-necessary nature of their being formulated, and in the nature of their rebirth, they were born for times like these.
