Five life lessons we can learn from Sachin Tendulkar's career

Attitude towards hardships

It is the 2003 World Cup finals and Australia have piled up excessive misery on Indian bowlers and the Indian fans alike. The easiest job for the Indian team would have been to sit back and say, ‘Well, we’ve done well to come up to this stage of a World Championship, let’s be proud of that and pack our bags’.

Instead, Sachin stepped into the dressing room and asked a question to all his fellow teammates, he asked, “Can we score a boundary in every over?” given the names in the then batting lineup, everyone replied affirmatively, he said, “great, that means we now have a score of 200 from 50 balls, all that we need to do is score the remaining 160 off 250 balls, now is that gettable?”

What happened post that shouldn’t be delved into, but what we mustn’t oversee is the ability of a champion to look for a winning way when the world around him is pushing him to defeat.

How often do we, in strange cities, stranger circumstances and tough scenarios back ourselves and say, yes this is gettable, and if I can get this I’ll have achieved a feat others find monumental. For behind every thorn of hardship is a blossoming fruit of success awaiting to be plucked.

Maybe, your World Cup moment isn’t far off too.