“I Feel as if I’ve Been Let in on a Dirty Little Secret: Winning Changes Nothing.”
“But
I don’t feel that Wimbledon changed me. I feel, in fact, as if I’ve
been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that
I’ve won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are
permitted to know. A win doesn’t feel as good as a loss feels bad, and
the good feeling doesn’t last as long as the bad. Not even close.”–Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography
Agassi is referring to the “negativity bias,” the phenomenon that means that generally, bad is stronger than good. Alas.
http://www.gretchenrubin.com/happiness_project/2014/06/i-feel-as-if-ive-been-let-in-on-a-dirty-little-secret-winning-changes-nothing/
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