If you want to make the most progress you've ever made in your life, you need to be alone. You need an extended period of isolation, not influenced by friends or media, spent building your future. You need space to learn, think, experiment, and fail.
Give yourself 6 months. Focus solely on the development of your mind, body, spirit, and finances. This is how you get ahead of most people.
🚨 Rodri: “Real Madrid really tried hard. They wanted to sign me, we had direct talks and they came with everything they had to make it happen”.
“They made my decision difficult. I am grateful. Speaking with Florentino Pérez too? I am not gonna say that”, told COPE.
A baby staring at you and suddenly smiling feels like getting a five-star review from someone who cannot be bribed. This tiny human has zero social obligations and thought, “Yep, I like this face.” Absolutely undefeated endorsement.
Making money is a mind game: You have to take 10 steps backwards in the eyes of society to take 1000 steps forward. In other words, you need to stomach making $0/day (for x time) in order to make $100k+/day. Most people never want to make $0/day so they never make $100k+/day.
Pep Guardiola used to tell Rodri: “There is no system that can compensate for losing the ball repeatedly. It was more about staying calm and controlling the ball than it was about the system.”
That’s what Rodri told the interviewer when he was asked what changed at half-time.
Many of you probably noticed the moment in the picture on the right. Rodri repeated this action several times with his teammates in the first half, especially after we scored the equalizer.
Every few minutes, he would tell them: “Slow the game down, slow the game down.”
He could see that the team was losing control, the players were making poor decisions, and the game was becoming too chaotic. His priority was simply to get through the half, calm everyone down, and regain control in the dressing room.
And that’s exactly what happened.
This is the mentality and leadership we’ve been missing at Barcelona.
Rodri could see the team was losing control, so every few minutes he was telling his teammates: “Slow the game down.”
Sometimes you don’t need another tactical instruction. You need a leader on the pitch who can read the situation and calm everyone down.
If we had someone like Rodri in the Inter game, or some of our previous defeats, things could have been different. We’ve often lacked that true leader who tells his teammates when to slow down instead of forcing the game.
That’s what makes Rodri special. A true leader. 👏🏻
🔵🔴 Rodri: “Pep Guardiola used to tell me something, always. There's no system that beats keeping the ball on your own”.
“We had to be more calm and not lose balls. That was it”.