5 ways to be like Lionel Messi

#3 Lose finals with your country

This is a little tricky if you are not a sportsperson. Okay, let us try a different angle. Suppose you are representing your country in a worldwide programming contest. You have beaten some really good teams and have reached the final of the tournament.

One win and your team—and country—gets labelled as the best bunch of programmers in the world.

Now, however, you decide to try too much and screw everything in the process. First and foremost, you write 1000 lines of codes without once using the semicolon. And this is how you actually should lose—the lamest of reasons.

Get smart and apply something similar to match with your work field. However, I have to admit that this is only possible if you enter some kind of competition. Tough being Lionel Messi, ‘innit’?