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question. What if God asks you what you want for your team this
             season? My answer would be that Arsenal should win the Premier
             League, Champions League, FA Cup, etc. Your answer would
             probably  be the  same. God  said to you  –  It is  done! Then the
             season starts, there is a guarantee that your team is certain to win
             no matter what the other teams do. You are certainly going to revel
             in that for the first 10 games probably until you realise that you
             cannot lose no matter what! I bet you that the game will not be of
             interest to you after a while. Why would I say that? It is because
             what  makes  sports  attractive  and  engaging  is  the  possibility of
             losing. So, they say art mirrors life; so does sport. Let’s translate
             this concept to our real lives. Let’s imagine that God said to you
             that you have been selected of all humans that whatever you want
             comes to pass immediately. If you want a whole city full of money,
             there it is. You want the most beautiful woman in the world, there
             it is! You want to be able to fly like a bird, there it is! Whatever, you
             can think of having, it is done! Just like the football example, you
             will rapidly lose the will to live. This is the reason for the misery
             faced by children of the greats because of two reasons. The first
             reason is  that  they get  everything  they want without having to
             stress or struggle. Therefore, when everything comes to you
             without any effort, you are already in trouble. The second reason
             is that regardless of the effort they put into their vocation, people
             dismiss  their  achievement  because  it  is down  to  help from  the
             father  or  mother.  I have coached a lot of people through this
             difficult challenge, so I understand the depth of their desperation.
             Prince William and Harry have expressed the desire to just be a
             normal person capable of living a life of anonymity. People looking
             at their lives from outside cannot understand their desperation to
             just be normal like everyone else. I do understand their state of
             mind because as a coach I have helped a lot of people deal with
             this  difficult  burden.  Another  man  that  I  got  the  insight  from  is
             Andrew Carnegie ‘The parent who leaves his son enormous
             wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and
             tempts him to live a less useful and less worthy life than he
             otherwise would’ Bill  Gates also said ‘He would leave  for his
             children enough to do what they want to do but not enough to do
             nothing’ These men knew what most people don’t which is the
             principle I want to share with you here.



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