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What is a loser?

If you lose something, this does not make you a loser, and the same if you repeatedly try something and fail in the attempt.

Being a loser is a state of mind wherein the person loses as a way of life. They lose in their mind before trying and so never try. They preempt impending imagined loss as a knee jerk reaction to all incoming unusual events in life.

Losers are everywhere in all walks of life; I’d dread to think what percentage of the population are infected with this mindset but it must be high. Some other typical traits that losers have is that they cannot see opportunity when it is staring them in the face, and they also cannot think outside the box of their own limited mental structure, and of course they think things are impossible.

Here are some examples of meeting losers in my own life. Just yesterday I had the experience of dealing with them. Having finished a business meeting hours early I went to the airport as I figured that afternoon flights would be empty and I could plane hop. I do this all the time with Quantas, but on this occasion I was unfortunate enough to be booked on Virgin Blue. The dozey girl behind the checkin counter looked momentarily at my ticket and said without looking up from her screen, “you cannot change flights, sorry.”

I looked at her. I said “so you mean that even if there are loads of empty seats on the next two flights I still have to wait?”

She said “Yes.” – end of conversation.

…LOSERS! Virgin Blue cannot see that the difference between customer satisfaction and frustration costs them NOTHING. Here’s an example of not being able to see opportunity when its staring you in the face. (more…)