Friday, August 20, 2010

Guideposts: the homespun wisdom of Coach Wooden

This year legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden died just short of his 100th birthday after a long retirement in which he was still active as a motivational speaker in his 90s.

His life is a testament to the kind of old-fashioned clean living many of us with AS aspire to.

He also was humble, working in obscurity as a coach for 20 years before a winning streak made him a sports legend.

Anyway one of the things he's famous for is his Pyramid of Success, a set of aphorisms about values he started learning growing up on the farm in 1910s-20s Indiana that he honed over the years. Here it is (click to enlarge).

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