Who we look down on, we pass our power to.

The rules of business, life and sport are the same.

The principle rule of Sport is this – the moment we look down on a competitor, they will take our pants off when it comes to performance. This is the name of the game no matter what our industry is.

The reason this happens is Spiritual – when we look down on an individual, we unknowingly pass our ‘power’ to them. We become stronger, they become weaker.

In 1971, Vijay Amritraj was never taken seriously by tennis greats like Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver – because India did not have a reputation for producing athletes.

What happened next was inevitable – he humbled every one of them by defeating them in principle matches they could not afford to lose.

This is the Principle of the Universe -who we look down on, we unconsciously bless (all fortunes are made by people who came from hardship not comfort – think Kerry Stokes, an orphan, Fr Bob, an orphan, Steve Jobs, abandoned at birth, Gina Reinhardt abandoned by her father).

What all these men and women faced was the extreme hardship that comes from ‘not being wanted’. But they refused to bow to the challenge, choosing instead to be buoyed by it!