Success Through Failure With Jim Harshaw Jr | Goal Setting, Habits, Mindset And Motivation For Sports, Business And Life

The recent tirade by the Louisville head women’s basketball coach about “every kid gets a trophy” is the latest public lashing of society. It’s an unfortunate irony. The very coach whose job is to teach young athletes accountability is blaming someone else for his own failure as a coach. This is a coach who played a team made of players of the same generation and in the same recruiting pool yet he blames society instead of himself. I’m a father of four and have been a Division I head coach so I fully understand the challenges of mentoring youth. It’s easier to blame society than to take responsibility. The fact is that it’s developmentally appropriate for young people to struggle with failure, adversity, obstacles, and setback. To be honest, you and I struggle with it too. It’s part of a coaches job (as well as parents, teachers and the rest of us) to teach them how to deal with it. == It’s become a badge of honor to complain about kids getting participation trophies. It’s like when our grandparents told us t