DEVELOP AMNESIA

I saw a quote from Vincent Kompany this week that stuck with me.

He’s gone from elite player at Manchester City, to promotion and relegation with Burnley, to now managing Bayern Munich.

Success. Failure. Criticism. Another opportunity.

And he keeps moving.

His message was simple:

Develop deliberate amnesia.

Make the mistake. Learn from it. Then move on.

Because the next play doesn’t care about the last one.

NEXT PLAY MENTALITY

A young footballer loses the ball trying a risky pass.

Next time, they either play safe… or try it again.

The great players choose the second option.

Not because they don’t make mistakes, but because mistakes don’t define them.

They reset fast:

Lose the ball? Next play.

Miss a shot? Next play.

Get beaten? Next play.

You can’t play freely while carrying every mistake with you.

SAME IN BUSINESS

I’ve had wins and failures in business.

Good decisions and bad ones.

Ideas that worked instantly… and ideas that didn’t.

The danger isn’t failure.

It’s letting failure make you hesitant.

You launch something and it flops … go again.

You make a bad hire …. go again.

You lose money …. learn and go again.

If you replay every mistake, you eventually stop moving.

KEEP THE LESSON, DROP THE FEAR

Amnesia doesn’t mean ignoring mistakes.

It means keeping the lesson and losing the emotional weight.

Review it. Learn it. Adjust.

Then move on.

Because hesitation kills progress.

YOUR MEMORY CAN HOLD YOU BACK

If you remember every failure, rejection, and mistake, you stop acting based on where you’re going and start acting based on what you’re afraid of.

That’s not competition.

That’s survival.

DEVELOP AMNESIA

Take the shot.

Make the pass.

Start the thing.

Try again.

And if it fails?

Learn from it.

Then next time it comes around…

Play it like it never hurt you before.

NEXT PLAY.

From the Founder, Brian Mazza 8/21