The Intramural Giants (College)
1991  College
Master Registry #2 | Teamwork, Cooperative Philosophy
Setting: College social club intramural games
“When making decisions as an Entrepreneur, it’s always a choice between payoff and risk. You have to consider, is this worth it? If it isn’t; don’t. If it is; hold nothing back. What your hand finds to do, do it with your Might.
One of my favorite memories is from college when I represented my social club in intramural games, in a challenge to place softball-sized hollow rubber balls into an institutional sized garbage can placed in the middle of the gym; guarded by two much larger than me (6'2” 6'6"?) athletes of local notoriety from competing social clubs.
I, 5'6, feinted left  they both shifted left. I feinted right; again, they shifted to block me (grabbing and wrestling allowed). The crowd of my social club in the stands behind me, the clock running down, I had no other option: I dropped my right shoulder (You should have SEEN THE LOOKS OF OPEN-EYED ASTONISHMENT) and plowed INTO AND THROUGH THEM.
Or, that’s what I tried. They were pretty big, and the best I could do was NOT QUIT and climb them and tip us all forward, as they grabbed me and turned me around so that when all three of us slammed to the ground on our backs, I got the wind knocked out of me.
But my TEAMMATE? In the time I kept the giants busy, he walked over and dropped 6 balls into the goal, 1 more than the other team.
And that’s how we win."
Key Lesson: You don’t have to win. You have to create the opening for someone else to win.
Best Used For: Cooperative philosophy, teamwork, platform as enabler