Think Like a Champion

Great works are performed not by

strength but by perseverance.

—Samuel Johnson

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Think

Positively

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here have been so many books and examples about the power
of positive thinking that it seems unnecessary to even men-
tion it. But I still see examples every single day of the power that
negative thinking has over people, so either people haven’t gotten
the message or they’re just plain not paying attention.
When I started thinking about this essay, I realized that maybe
people just don’t have the persistence required to make positive
thinking work for them. Things rarely just happen overnight. Most
overnight success stories are no such thing. Just because you only
recently heard of someone doesn’t mean they haven’t been work-
ing for twenty or thirty years or more already. When my television
show, The Apprentice, became a big hit, I had over thirty years of
experience to draw upon when conducting the boardroom scenes.
It wasn’t just a fluke that I came across as someone who knew what
they were doing. The fact that I was on television was new, but the
rest wasn’t particularly new to me. Business is business, whether