“There are two reasons for everything. A good reason, and the real one.”
– Winston Churchill
When we win, there are reasons. When we lose, too.
It’s worth it to dig a layer or two down from what seems obvious, though. People thought that the Chicago Bulls won all those championships in the 90’s because they were unstoppable on offense.
Nope.
Best defensive team ever. MAYBE the ’69 Knicks came close, and maybe a couple of the Celtics teams, too. But the Jordan-led Bulls won with defense.
People think that the Allies won World War II with The Bomb.
Nope.
They won it years earlier by splitting the European front. Otherwise, the fight might have never got back to the Pacific.
It’s easy to know a good reason that something happened.
Difference makers learn the real reason.
Jim Briggs says
You might even say that difference makers seek to shape/influence/cause/impact the reason. Great lesson today.