We attended the Pan Am tennis last week in Toronto. It was about 8 hours of great entertainment – actually there were a few gaps and breaks and darting to other courts, grabbing a bite to eat etc.
Former Ontario Liberal Premier David Peterson is the chair of the games. I remember seeing him at the airport with his daughter in 1997 as our international credit high school program was getting ready to jet to Oxford for July. I was teaching business at this fine institution….Peterson’s daughter was not in my class.
He provides us with his take on success and naysayers. His message? “The only way not to be criticized is not to do anything. You play in a hockey league, you might be criticized. You write a book, people might hate it. You run for office, you might not win.I have done lots of things that weren’t great, but that’s not going to stop me from taking risks and trying new things……”
Sound advice. Peterson suggests people “like to set themselves up as the official opposition.” Finally he gives us this tidbit, ” ….the world does not belong to the critics and it’s a funny thing how they disappear when you achieve success. Either that or they pretend they were with you the whole time.”
Source: THE GLOBE AND MAIL, L2, July 20, 2015
Here he is about 1/2 a year ago talking about it:
