I was reading about heated arguments between an Indian player and an Australian player last week (BTW, I happened to see the entire teams of India and Australia in Taj-Chandigarh where I happened to be there on a business dinner).
This incident reminded me one incident happened in IIT campus when I was a student.
Me and my partner were participating in double wicket cricket tournament and we were most probably the top contender for winning. We had the best combination of bowling and batting. (I used to play good cricket by the way).
During the final, a second year B.Tech guy and his partner were playing against us. When we were bowling he started saying ‘this is going to be wide ball, this will be full-toss and hit him to six etc etc’. We both carried away by these comments so much that we started exactly bowling as what he was saying. Clearly, we allowed him to take over our minds.
And then, during batting, he will scream, ‘they don’t know batting, here you go, missed the ball’ etc etc. Needless to say, we again carried away and eventually lost the game from being very well positioned to win.
When I analyzed this whole incident; it appeared to me that I got so angry by his comments and decided to prove him wrong; in that tempo lost my natural game and thus was not up to the mark.
That day, I learnt a lesson, however angry you are; don’t let your analytical mind make any permanent decision at that point in time. I guess, I learnt how to deal with such situation and don’t over-react (This is only applicable to business life though, in my personal life I think I over-react)
This is working for me and Australian episode made me to think on the incident that happened in my college days.
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