Human Psychology: fear of losing constructs negative thoughts in mind!
Jahangir khan and
Jansher khan could possibly the two best player ever produced by squash sport’s
world. They were not directly closer relative, but did belong to same ethnicity
of Peshawar, Pakistan. Two decades (80’s & 90’s) world has seen unforgettable
and unbelievable dominance of both great squash players. World open and British
open is two of the most highly rated events of squash. Jahangir Khan won 6 World
Open and consecutive 10 British Open titles. Whereas, Jansher Khan claimed 8
world Open and 6 British Open titles against his name. To give glimpse of an idea about the greatness
of two players, I could consider them like today’s two greats of Long Tennis;
yes you are right I am talking about Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (I would
had prefer it to match Jahangir & Jansher’s supremacy with Roger Federer
& Petsemparas, but due to Rafael and Roger rivalry, I do prefer to give
their names in comparison).
There are two
great achievement of Jahangir Khan, which may lead him as arguably the greatest
of lot and all time best in squash world. First, his 555 consecutive wins, it was started at the age of 17, when
he won the World Open title first time in 1981 against Australian Geoff Hunt. His
unbeaten winning streak was at last ended in 1986, when Ross Norman beats him
in World Open. The second achievement is might be more astonishing then first
one is that winning the International Squash
Players Association Championship without losing a single point. OH! My
Goodness, could it ever happen again in any sports, please do let me know if
anyone of you observed such achievement by any other sport man. I think the
aforementioned astonishing achievements of Jehangir Khan make him arguably the
great player of all time in sports history and marked him as a truest champion of
all time that a world would never forget until it lives.
But as for every
beginning there is an end, for every rise there is decline, finally Jahangir Khan
retired from world of squash as a player in 1993. This article is basically
about the human psychology which I observed again today; when I was watching
world open squash final of 1993 between two greats mentioned above. It is human
nature that when it smells or fears defeat, it starts to construct negative
thoughts in human mind, which in actual leads him to defeat. There have been
many occasions in Jehangir Khan’s sporting career, when he may fears a defeat
before it actually happened; but as a true champion whenever human psyche started
to construct negative thoughts in his intellect he suppressed it to overcome defeat.
In that 1993 world open squash final, when Jansher Khan started to dominate, Jehangir Khan negative constructs
were obvious by his apparent behavior. He starts complaining to referee about the
“let & stroke points”, which went against him. At that time I realized that
how the fear of losing, gets construct negative thoughts in one mind and how it
ultimately results in actual defeat.
In every part of
life, the fear of losing, smell of defeat & desperation may result in to
start constructs your negative thoughts & believes, but as a true champion
you would have to suppress those negative constructs to get ultimate success.
By Obzerver,,,
