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[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@ArashMemarzadeh Oh you got him good! I can see the headlines .. loser blogger finally gets laid after kicking dirt in the grave of someone who got fired. This is why everyone hates Canucks fans

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@AWalksOfficial You are the little ball of hate.. only thing worse than this take is you are bang on hahaha

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@ryanjespersen Just another slow death of small “mom and pop” shops at the hand of not having to walk 5 min outside to a liquor store.

[Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen]

Two excellent guests out of the gates today...but the show gets REALLY real in the final fifteen minutes. I can only take so much from lazy critics without responding.

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@trentulmer @csevs19 Trent for the win

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@BostonConnr He’s a robot … #Botpurdy

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@lawdawggie2 @34KCWatkins Those boys used to come into the Point back in the day when I was working and enjoy the fruits of their labour … great team

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@JoiBotanicals 73

[Riggs @RiggsBarstool]

Bryson with the 58, the win and one of the higher golf jumps we’ve seen. Awesome. https://t.co/rI99oD4TOy

[Shane Bacon @shanebacon]

No matter if you're LIV or the PGA Tour, rollback or no rollback, the one thing we can ALL agree on is if you hit a putt on a practice green so bad it goes close to a hole you weren't aiming at you will absolutely hit that second ball to that same wrong hole.

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

I can’t wait for college football

[Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen]

🤣🤣🤣

[Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen]

I love this photo of my brother and me @calgarystampede.

Jonas grows the best cannabis in Canada @JoiBotanicals just outside Calgary.

See for yourself…ask for Joi by name wherever you buy your bud! 🔥🌱😎

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@lawdawggie2 @ronlee1975 He certainly does look like a man with a slow hand and an easy touch around the greens

[Jon Sherman @practicalgolf]

4 PGA Tour stats that will change your perspective on golf 👇

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@Badseeds7 @Captaincoby00 Planned obsolescence… where do you think the tech company’s like Apple got these brilliant ideas… it all started to make sense to me when physical education was cut back in schools .. more kids to stare at screens to soak in the message. Those kids now vote and purchase

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@NotDrJ Kind of a bitch move .. not by them .. @NoLayingUp trying your hardest to get some people” canceled “ all giddy and happy. People make mistakes maybe they regret it, maybe they regret taking the comments off. Who gives a shit they are grown men. They talk golf #smallshop

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@lawdawggie2 @MitchLaurance

[mike pearce @PearceSauce]

@AWalksOfficial @Sportsnet This is the Walker we need … finally we get the real you! show these amateurs how it’s done!