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The extreme art of winning

Book review of Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

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Book cover of Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

Sona Maniar
Michael Jordan (aka MJ) is considered one of the world’s greatest basketball players, winning six National Basket Association championships for the Chicago Bulls. His drive to succeed is legendary.  In the ESPN and Netflix docuseries The Last Dance, which is about the Chicago Bulls’ 1997-98 season, MJ famously said, “My mentality was to go out and win at any cost.”

This scene finds a mention in the book Winning by Tim Grover, co-written with Shari Lesser Wenk. The book leverages the scene deftly to emphasise points such as “Extreme results (winning) require extreme competition” and “being competitive and being a winner