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A New Way of Being

Handling Success and Setbacks: Jos Buttler

A New Way of Being

Simon Mundie

Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.8523 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

"If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same..."

As Rudyard Kipling was well aware, success and failure are relative. Neither change who we fundamentally are, and life goes on.

One man who understands this is England cricket captain Jos Buttler, who led England to T20 World Cup success, and who recently stood down as England captain


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0:00.0

Josh Butler recently stood down as England's whiteball cricket captain.

0:09.0

Now that's a dip in his career from the outside, but Josh has had numerous highs, not least

0:14.6

winning the World Cup.

0:16.0

And from my point of view, his humility and down to worth approach to life are things that

0:20.0

anyone can learn from.

0:24.2

Yeah, I think the moment I got dropped actually felt like a huge relief. It felt like I could breathe

0:28.6

again. And also, it reminds me about just quickly on that sort of perspective type thing.

0:34.9

At the time, you just thought everyone's talking about you, you thought you go down to

0:38.1

breakfast and the chef's probably thinking in his head, oh, he hasn't scored any runs and the guy

0:43.6

you walk past on the streets, oh, that's him, he's in the paper because he's not scoring one.

0:47.8

And then you get dropped and then you realize actually like a day later, like no one cares,

0:52.1

like no one's talking about you anymore and then they're on to the

0:54.8

next person and so that gave me a sense of perspective again and then yeah going away and learning

1:01.0

through the franchise stuff i think one thing that gave me a lot of confidence from franchise cricket

1:06.8

is people asking you questions you know suddenly in the IPL you're playing with

1:11.5

some of your heroes, other people you respect so much from around the world and think of

1:16.6

a brilliant player. And then they'll come to you and say, you know, when you do this shot or this

1:21.6

thing, how do you do that? And can you tell me about this bit? You sort of have those organic

1:26.2

conversations where you sort of, I might show

1:28.9

someone something and I'll ask them about a point of their game and then sort of take quite a lot of

1:33.2

confidence from someone you respected a lot or thought, yeah, he actually wants to know how I do it.

1:39.0

Maybe he's not, you know, superhuman and maybe he still has the same sort of inhibitions I do at

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