Fortune Favors the Bold: Lessons from Ancelotti

The time-honoured proverb holds true: fortune favours the bold. Be different, take risks. It’s the only way you’ll experience the thrill of a breakout success.

Take the career of one Carlo Ancelotti, the coach of Real Madrid, who on Saturday – at the ripe age of 64 – won his fifth Champions League as a coach.

Ancelotti’s coaching style defies modern convention. In an age of over- coached, micromanaged, super-engineered football – Ancelotti’s Real Madrid remains fluid and expressive.

We often assume that people become more cautious with age – not so with Ancelotti, he has become more daring.

Old age makes the timid, more timid; and the bold, more bold. Boldness is a muscle.

So venture to be bold when young, that you may retain the will to be bold when old.