If Winning isn't everything, why do they Keep the Score?

As we have day-light & dark, right & wrong, similarly we do have winning and losing, but for it is to happen one should essentially and sincerely participate. So, which is first, is it participation or winning, undoubtedly it participation which comes first. Does participation is enough, no not at all; it is winning which matters most, because, a victory can only justify your preparedness & seriousness for participation.

For winning means you have tried hard but the victory is not permanent and loosing tells you have areas to improve. On the other hand, this is human tendency that we work only to achieve goals not bothering to enjoy the process of achieving it. The feeling of wining is always best and it boosts our confidence level, energy level etc. One should always need to strive for winning that should be in a true/fair manner. Irrespective of the strength of your opponent, you should come-up with a winning mindset. If you are not able to win, learn from the mistakes that you did and try not to repeat the same in future.

Some arguments claim that, winning or losing is always secondary. The primary thing is to participate or give an attempt. What matters is your attitude after a win or loss. A win does not mean you have achieved everything and a loss doesn't means you are left with nothing. If you have participated, that mean you have accepted the theory of life.

In this world of competition, do we all really feel that winning isn't everything? It is definitely not so. We are in such an atmosphere where winning is compulsory either be it professionally, personally, in competitions or in sports. Medal achievers are respected most and they are rewarded but what about those who lose.

Participation provides us a platform to challenge ourselves. We learn new things and develop various skills after taking up the challenge. Experience gained from the participation can be used to talk about in new and fresh tasks. Participation is just a process, not an endpoint where you keep on grasping from your understandings. Irrespective of the result one should concentrate on his strengths and should keep moving on in life.

Finally, Participation doesn't always guarantee success, but not participating almost certainly ensures failure.

Winning is the only thing, is it? It is true that winning is the form that makes competition what it is. It is the essence of competition. But winning is not life, it is just the good side of losing. Winning teaches you a few things but not everything.

No, winning is not "everything" and it is not "the only thing. " Turning failure to your advantage is everything! Learning from failures is the only thing. Failure is the lemon and learning is that proverbial lemonade.

1) The most essential thing in life is not conquering everything but fighting well for it.

2) Life isn't all about winning; it's about keeping the right attitude that is required to win.

3) Turning failure into an advantage and learning from them is the important thing.

4) Normally, when we achieve success, we get so busy in rejoicing that we actually learn little from it. When we fail, we can focus our entire attention on learning from it. We can learn far more from a failure than we might from a success. One who does not understand this about failure may win a battle or two, but may lose the war of life.

A well-known example is of Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb and many other useful things. Edison failed thousands of times before he hit upon the right solution. What others viewed as Edison's "failed attempts, " he considered them as "successful" experiments because they taught him what doesn't work. That opened the way for him to explore other options.

Winning is an important thing but what is more important than winning; it is the will to win. Winning and losing are two sides of the same coin both have their own effects. The road to success is littered with failures. The most important things are won in life only when one has learnt the art of conquering his/her failures.

Yeah, it's true, winning is not everything.

Think if a person wants to win every time even without doing hard work and when they lose suddenly then they will find mistakes in others, not in themselves.

Winning and losing is like a double-edged sword. If winning encourages us to continue same work in future then Losing equally teach us to do hard work, to realise our mistakes. Every time it does not matter to win but its matter to learn every time. When we lose we try to search for new ideas and we do lots of hard work for the great victory. After a lot of hard work and after searching new and great ideas to win, when a person succeeds with a great victory then he/she realise the importance of losing a game and realise how that lose turn them into a strong man.

So winning does not mean to think we are stronger then anyone but its like to realise that we are capable to do anything and there is nothing impossible to do any task unless we put our hard work. Winning is just to encourage people but a person who chooses his field with passion and interest, for them winning and losing does not matter. The only thing is matter is to do their best in that field and to learn from mistakes.

Suppose it's roger federer competing against rafael nadal you want federer to win the title but the scenario is such that either of the players can win and suddenly within a blink of an eye you see nadal doing an ace to set match for himself. Everyone in all tennis club stand up and applause for the great guy. You see both the players approaching the net, they shake hands, may be give a hug or two as well, and then Federer leaves rafael alone to celebrate. Every one in the arena on their feet to congratulate rafal.

So, basically it's about competing well and giving it everything you have. At the end of the day, it's about the game not the players. To show the coming generation the kind of greats the game has given to the world. So, winning might not be everything but eventually you play to win. 'winning is not everything ' means to play fair but yet compete and compete to win. May be for the history of the game and for it's survival too. People come in numbers to support the game surely they don't want the game to end in a tie. No matter who wins the game would still be loved by peoples and just to end, you always want the best players to compete against each other.

Everybody proclaims that winning isn't everything, well that has a modicum of truth but the question is why do we keep the score?

The answer to this question is pretty simple, people work to satiate their hunger for success and scores are just the motivation to get ahead. Everybody needs some motivation or incentive which the scoreboard is providing in this case. Scores define your performance, it reflects those areas where you lag so that you can work upon it and also highlights the areas where you excel. Participation and sincere efforts that you put in is for a purpose and winning is that purpose, it is that goal which has to be achieved.

Goals in life give you a certain direction. People move in the direction of their goals and defeat every hurdle with zeal but if there's no goal there's no direction. When we say winning isn't everything, we imply the fact that our life does not depend on the outcome of a game. The cardinal point is the learning process which is facilitated by the scoreboard. Winning and losing are just the superficial parts of a game, the main aim is to improve, participate, perform and do better every time.

Let me start with definition of Score!. Score is that value/figures that is given to a person or a team based on its performance in a given field or work. This score signifies how good or bad he is. It could be either GDP of a country, runs scored by a player, etc these help to determine how well he is been in his field of work, which in turn defines his dedication towards work.

Winning is that moment that is achieved when a person/team performs good, which in turn is dependent on scores.

Yes, Winning is not everything, but having scores will appreciate the player/team/country to boost themselves into being good at what they do. In this process if they fail to get a good score, scores help them to know where the undermine is, and they work on it to improve it. Which will certainly help them to improve their score in next term and might help them to win a match.

Bottomline, Scores help us in determining how well we are at a given work and gives us a chance to work on it, to build ourselves and win in our life if not in the game.

Hello everyone,

Consider that, we are in a GD room in this topic, we all must have been selected from a larger lot (Exam) which means we all have won a game and many would have failed in that. All those were governed by a scale 'SCORE'.

So score always just gives provides a means of the healthy competition and provide the chance to prove yourself in the game.

Next, some of us will be selected after GD and again others will not. Few win and others not but those who have failed will definitely try in another game, considering he works hard and again does not win the next game, he again works hard and plays times after times finally he wins.

When we play it's all about how we play to achieve his target or score. Win or lose doesn't matter at the very particular moment, but in a long run, we all play to win. And ultimately we all win. All we have to do is put our focus on our work which is nothing but the SCORE and win will be yours.

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If an individual or a team is on a winning streak there is no big issue. That particular individual or a team will always be motivated and he/she/they will definitely try to win the next challenge which life throws at them. They will be having high probability to win the next challenge.

But what if someone is on a losing streak, for them "winning is not everything" this acts as a motivation line. Just to ensure that after their failure they shouldn't stop themselves to participate for next challenge. This justifies that they should keep try and shouldn't lose hope. Failure in one phase doesn't mean they will be failed in next phase.

And talking about scores, score is a numeric value onto which status of an individual or a team is determined. Let's assume scores are not included or we are not aware of score, then on what bases we'll be deciding one's status that is whether he/she/they lose or won.

According to me, winning in a any task is not that they are succeeded in his or her life, scores are used for fixing target for a particular game or a task. So, it is needed sometimes to take decision that which team is performing better and to motivate them to achieve anything big.

Nowadays, only based on scores only, the school students are entering into a good college. Good marks are used for particular period and not for entire life. So, avoid seeing the scores and see each and everyone's talent. In sports, they use the scores to fix a goal, if the runs are not there, then they will not show interest and their hidden talents.

That's why they are keeping scores or runs for all fields to become our world as competitive one. So, each and every one should not keep score as target, they should improve their own skills in various fields, that shows winning is everything and it's reality.

Hey guys,

Winning isn't everything. This is true as the two complements of the world like light and dark, true and false etc but they both are made for any reason. As winning means you have tried very well but its not permanent and loosing tells you have not tried with your whole heart. But keep trying is the same result for both.

On the other hand, we can see the scored that defines how you are playing and it finalize your position respect to your competitor. That doesn't mean that you are playing to get good scores it means there is something for which you are playing. Its like a motivation in your game.

This is human tendency that we work to achieve any goal. Like we work to eat, to live in our life. Everything is done for a purpose so here in sports, we put scores to have aim and motivation to move ahead. And this also increase the interest of the audience.

Thank you.