Mindset

I am reading Mindset, a book by Carol Dwek, and find her general idea a good one: there are people with a fixed mindset, i.e. the idea that I have and hence that I am at risk to lose what I have. The opposite mindset is one where you accept who you are and are constantly on the look-out for what you can do better. She gives many examples and among the athletes you are perhaps not surprised to find Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan as examples of a superior mindset.

The book was written before Tiger Woods sexual addiction became known and also before Michael Jordan's ego rant when he was inducted into the basket ball hall of fame. But perhaps Tiger and Michael are just human after all and happen to have bad days like all of us which shouldn't mitigate their super-human accomplishments in their athletic fields. I honestly don't know. Perhaps the problem is just that all athletic competitions were devised by humans to mirror the ego game and that demanding that the top player in the field also happens to be a spiritual master is just mission impossible. What do you think?