Dear Vince: please clarify

Delegating self-assessment to others <> personal pipe ownership.

Printed on a miniature football given out by clickbooth at AdTech this year:

We will be judged by only one thing -- the result.
Vince Lombardi

Unlike so many effective online ads, this quotation was not contextual; I've no idea when or where Vince said this. Perhaps it was in opposition to "It's how you play the game."

But if he's talking about a life well-lived, let me just say:

• Who is doing the judging?
• What are the metrics upon which 'the result' is based?
• Who are we?

Me? I'm more on the Cervantes tip -- "The road is always better than the inn." Which is not to say that I would agree with, "The loss is better than the win." But there are lessons to be learned about life and about self that cannot be found in a stream of blue ribbons.

Considering this, perhaps I could agree with ole Vince if the result were that which we have learned from any given experience.

Somehow, I don't think that's what he had in mind.

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