Steve Hauser, an intern the past two summers for the Cleveland Browns and Wesleyan U. senior football/tennis player let us know about Eric Mangini, Wesleyan Class of '94, two-time NFL Head Coach and Super Bowl winner and his feelings on convictions:
(On if he learned anything about handling the pressures of being a head coach by watching Belichick)- “Bill’s a pretty focused guy and I think the important thing is that you have to know what you stand for, know what you believe in and have conviction. There’s always going to be...differences of opinion and you respect the differences of opinion, but at the end of the day you have to go with what you feel is right and what you believe is right. Sometimes it is right, sometimes it’s wrong, but there’s always going to be ideas and thoughts as to how you can do something differently. Your job is to do what you feel is going to give the team an opportunity to be successful.” - Eric Mangini
There's a fine line between standing up for what you believe in, knowing what's right and being too stubborn and stuck in your ways - a line that only the true great leaders really know how to straddle. Mangini is definitely right in saying that believing in your own convictions to carry forward is the way to go, however, it's also a strong quality to realize when to take criticism - learning from mistakes and being open to learning in general is when people really take their game to the next level.
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