NEW: UFCโs Dana White says he told a big sponsor to โgo f*** yourselfโ after they told him to delete a social media post that he shared of Donald Trump.
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โOne of our big sponsors called and said, take that down.โ
โI said, go f*** yourself. You vote for whoever you want to vote for and I'll vote for whoever I want to vote for. That's how this works. I don't even care who you're voting for. It's none of my f***ing business. F*** you.โ
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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, โThe other quarterbacks get all the reps.โ
Coach replied,
โBrady, 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.โ
Coach reminded him, โYou came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.โ
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, โI'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.โ
Harden simply replied, โJust go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.โ
โSo that's what I did,โ Brady said. โThey'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?'โ
โAnd I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.โ
Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, โand before you knew it,โ Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in meโto 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 Bowlโeventually, I became the starter.โ
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.
โPeople come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,โ Cuban explained. โThey'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.โ
โI just tell them, 'Be great.'โ
โThe 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.'โ You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'
โSo 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.โ
Takeaway 2:
I've written before about โlead measuresโโthe 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 โa lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.โ
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, thatโs what Brady did, thatโs 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: โAre you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] thereโs another quarterback here that they drafted last year?โ
Brady said he was aware of that. โAnd I know heโs a heck of a player,โ Brady said. โBut Iโve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I donโt put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know Iโm not at my best when Iโm not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.โ
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โI 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 didnโt matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.โ โย Tom Brady
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THE HUMAN BODY
1: Number of bones: 206
2: Number of bones of a newborn baby: 306
3: Number of muscles: 639
4: Number of kidneys: 2
5: Number of baby teeth: 20
6: Number of adult teeth: 32
7: Number of ribs: 24
8: Number of heart chambers: 4
9: Largest artery: aorta
10: Normal blood pressure: 120/80 Mm hg
11: Blood pH: 7.4
12: Number of vertebrae in the spine: 33
13: Number of neck vertebrae: 7
14: Number of bones in the middle ear: 6
15: Number of face bones: 14
16: Number of skull bones: 22
17: Number of chest bones: 25
18: Number of armโs bones: 6
19: Number of armโs muscles: 72
20: Smaller muscle: stapedius (6 mm)
21: Largest and most resistant bone: femur
22: Number of foot bones: 33
23: Number of bones in each wrist: 8
24: Number of bones in each hand: 27
25: Largest organ: skin
26: Heaviest internal organ and largest gland: liver
27: Largest cell: egg cell
28: Smallest cell: spermatozoon
29: Smallest bone: ossicle of the middle ear
30: Average length of the small intestine: 7 m
31: Average length of the large intestine: 1.5 m
32: Average heartbeat frequency: 72 bpm
33: Normal average body temperature: 37ยฐC (98.4ยฐF)
34: Average blood volume: 4.5 / 5.5 liters
35: Average life span of a red blood cell: 120 days
36: Average life span of a white blood cell: 10/15 days
37: Average life span of a platelet: 5/9 days
38: Average gestation period: 280 days (40 weeks)
39: Largest endocrine cell: thyroid
40: Largest lymphatic organ: spleen
41: Number of chromosomes: 46
42: Averagle blood viscosity: 3.5 / 5.5 cP
43: Universal donor blood type: O
44: Universal recipient blood type: AB
45: Largest white blood cell: monocyte
46: Smallest white blood cell: lymfocite
47: Number of cranial nerves: 12 pairs
48: Number of spinal nerves: 31 pairs
49: Approximate number of cells: ~ 30 trillions
50: Average number of neurons: ~ 86 billions
The human body is an amazing machine, but donโt forget that nature wants 5 of your 7 children dead. It wants you dead by 40. Everything better than that is brought to you by science.
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