My fellow toastmaster.
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better, and you better is best.” That is the personal quote of Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan is a professional basketball player for San Antonio Spurs. He is a four-time NBA champion. He has won NBA Most Valuable Player Award twice. He is also one of "100 Greatest Professional Basketball Players of The 20th Century", the youngest player on that list.
For me, the main spirit of that quote is ‘strive for excellence’. In some dictionary, excellence means ‘possessing qualities in the highest degree’. In my company, excellence is one of the company culture value, which was described as, among other things: value added orientation and continuous improvement.
Strive for excellence is a spirit that must inhabit us all. How many times when we deliver an assignment, that we are sure that it is our masterpiece? We tend to stop at the ‘not bad’ level. We are satisfied easily. We stop when we only reach the first base camp. We don’t have the hunger to try to reach the summit, the pinnacle, to soar up into the sky. To deliver our excellence.
Formula 1 Racing is one of the example of sports that require excellence. In F1, the gap between the fastest car and the last car to complete one lap is only one or two seconds. I am also an occasional gokart player, and I know how difficult it is to improve the lap time even just a second. That split second needs practice and practice, the excellence of cornering, when to do the late braking or when to push the pedal to the floor. If you push the brake too hard, the car will spin. Push it to easy, the car will hit the barrier. Only by driving the car excellently that you will get the best lap time.
Perseverance is one of the important things that we need to get excellent result. Without it, we will stop at the first obstacle we face. With it, we will continue amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. When someone questioned Thomas Alfa Edison on why his experiments don’t produce much result, he replied: “Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....
So, my fellow toastmaster.
Our challenges change over time. The methods with which we meet them may be new. But the spirit upon which our success depends – strive for excellence - this thing is old. This thing is true. There is nothing so satisfying to the spirit than giving our all to a difficult task.
If you think you had done your best but your best wasn’t good enough,
never let it rest. Until your good is better, your better is best, and your best is excellent.
(c) created by MZ
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better, and you better is best.” That is the personal quote of Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan is a professional basketball player for San Antonio Spurs. He is a four-time NBA champion. He has won NBA Most Valuable Player Award twice. He is also one of "100 Greatest Professional Basketball Players of The 20th Century", the youngest player on that list.
For me, the main spirit of that quote is ‘strive for excellence’. In some dictionary, excellence means ‘possessing qualities in the highest degree’. In my company, excellence is one of the company culture value, which was described as, among other things: value added orientation and continuous improvement.
Strive for excellence is a spirit that must inhabit us all. How many times when we deliver an assignment, that we are sure that it is our masterpiece? We tend to stop at the ‘not bad’ level. We are satisfied easily. We stop when we only reach the first base camp. We don’t have the hunger to try to reach the summit, the pinnacle, to soar up into the sky. To deliver our excellence.
Formula 1 Racing is one of the example of sports that require excellence. In F1, the gap between the fastest car and the last car to complete one lap is only one or two seconds. I am also an occasional gokart player, and I know how difficult it is to improve the lap time even just a second. That split second needs practice and practice, the excellence of cornering, when to do the late braking or when to push the pedal to the floor. If you push the brake too hard, the car will spin. Push it to easy, the car will hit the barrier. Only by driving the car excellently that you will get the best lap time.
Perseverance is one of the important things that we need to get excellent result. Without it, we will stop at the first obstacle we face. With it, we will continue amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. When someone questioned Thomas Alfa Edison on why his experiments don’t produce much result, he replied: “Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....
So, my fellow toastmaster.
Our challenges change over time. The methods with which we meet them may be new. But the spirit upon which our success depends – strive for excellence - this thing is old. This thing is true. There is nothing so satisfying to the spirit than giving our all to a difficult task.
If you think you had done your best but your best wasn’t good enough,
never let it rest. Until your good is better, your better is best, and your best is excellent.
(c) created by MZ
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