Issue 706 - "Industriousness for 2025" (Part 2)


Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13	Issue 706
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"INDUSTRIOUSNESS FOR 2025" (PART 2) John Wooden Video Clip (2 min. 40 sec.): Coach Wooden is asked: "What favorite poems comfort you when you think about Nellie?" Coach Wooden in his Pyramid of Success was insistent that the first step to success was Industriousness which he defined this way: "There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning." The word industriousness comes from the Latin word industria, meaning in part: diligence. Across 70+ world languages, the word "industriousness" consistently expresses three key concepts: Hard Work , Moral Integrity, and Diligence. Diligence comes from the Latin word : diligentia: "to pick out carefully". The word industriousness should apply to how we consume and interpret information from the media. Let’s teach our youth to be diligent and thorough when they decide what information is fact. "Facts lead to wisdom. Speculation leads to foolishness." Let’s follow Coach Wooden’s advice and thoroughly investigate information that we hear before we allow it to impact our thinking or emotions. The core importance of the word industriousness is the fact that it includes, by definition, being diligent and thorough, not just hard work, preparation, and attention to detail. We should not just read things, hear things, and draw opinions. Knowledge and wisdom require diligence and investigation of information from all perspectives. The famous Napoleon Hill question that needs to be asked when we receive information are those five great words: "How do you know that?" Getting the answer to that question requires industriousness. Are you teaching youngsters to be diligent? Are you a fact finder or a speculator? Click here for personal development exercise: Issue 706. Click here for Printable Poetry: Issue 706. Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman www.woodenswisdom.com Follow @woodenswisdom	COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE Living The miser thinks he's living when he's hoarding up his gold; The soldier calls it living when he's doing something bold; The sailor thinks it living to be tossed upon the sea, And upon this very subject no two of us agree. But I hold to the opinion, as I walk my way along, That living's made of laughter and good-fellowship and song. I wouldn't call it living to be always seeking gold, To bank all the present gladness for the days when I'll be old. I wouldn't call it living to spend all my strength for fame, And forego the many pleasures which to-day are mine to claim. I wouldn't for the splendor of the world set out to roam, And forsake my laughing children and the peace I know at home. Oh, the thing that I call living isn't gold or fame at all! It's fellowship and sunshine, and it's roses by the wall. It's evenings glad with music and a hearth-fire that's ablaze, And the joys which come to mortals in a thousand different ways. It is laughter and contentment and the struggle for a goal; It is everything that's needful in the shaping of a soul. Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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