Lin-sanity has swept up the NBA over the last week. Now itseems like the phenomenon has gone worldwide.
|Friday's 38 point performance by Harvard grad Jeremy Lin for theNew York Knicks against the LA Lakers was his greatest performanceyet as a starter, since he burst on to the scene and propelled theteam to 4 straight wins.
|Lin now has over 200,000 followers on Twitter. He's gotover 800,000 on Weibo – including 200,000 new ones in the 24 hourperiod after beating the Lakers.
|But there's more to this story than basketball. This isn'tjust a modern-day, real-life version of the Hoosiers movie. The Jeremy Lin story is incredibly popular because we can allsee a little bit of ourselves in this man's struggles and nowsuccesses.
|What can all of us learn from this young man — and how can weapply these same lessons to our own lives when we go back to workon Monday morning?
|1. Believe in yourself when no one elsedoes.Lin's only the 3rd graduate from Harvard to make itto the NBA. He's also one of only a handful ofAsian-Americans to make it. He was sent by the Knicks to play fortheir D-League team 3 weeks ago in Erie, PA. He'dalready been cut by two other NBA teams before joining the Knicksthis year. You've got to believe in yourself, even when noone else does.
|2. Seize the opportunity when it comes up.Learn the remaining eight lessons of Lin-sanity from thisForbes article.
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