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[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

In my early days, I had to numb myself. There was so much work. The amount of work you can only measure by how much it weighs. And if I stopped to think about how “unfinishable” the amount of work I had to do was, I would’ve quit.

So I did the only thing I could do, I’d take the first thing off the stack and start…without thinking about how shitty & alone I felt. And how everyone I knew was enjoying their life in their perfect bubble of security following the path someone else put in front of them.

There’s a reason race horses wear blinders. Focus only on what’s in front of you.

You’ll get through it. Keep going.

[CulturedUpdates @CulturedUpdatez]

Jayson Tatum’s Father gets deep on how the NBA is trying to Market the “Single Mother” image and trying to push the Dad’s out the picture.

Tatum’s Dad:

“I’ve seen it when it started with the Draft, Mom got interviewed, and I was sitting right next to it, nothing was asked to me, we know what it took to get our kids there. If stuff like that is going to break me, then I don’t need to be around.”

The Father’s of Jaylen Brown & Jayson Tatum, Lamelo & Lonzo Ball gathered around the round table to discuss this issue.

Dwayne Wade’s father is in the beginning of the clip. All these fathers were allegedly present in their kids lives and were being portrayed otherwise.

This is the dark side they don’t talk about.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Brock Purdy says talent stops being the separator once you reach the NFL

“Everybody in the NFL that's a starter, even second string guys, is the best in the world at what they do.”

“And you can have a great team in college, be surrounded by a great supporting cast. All these SEC schools are great, and recruit great, and win national championships. I'm not knocking them for that, that's awesome. Keep doing that. But when you play in the NFL, you're playing against the best of the best at every position.”

“So how do you separate yourself? The talent, everybody’s so talented. You gotta be talented to play. But at the end of the day, it’s coming down to the mental part of the game. Processing quickly, making the right decisions over and over and over.”

“George Kittle told me my rookie year, it's a Marshawn Lynch quote, it goes, you're gonna get 'Got' but you gotta 'Got' more than the other guy.”

“At the end of the day… you just gotta be more consistent than the guy across from you, and do better longer. They’re going to make great plays… but who can do it the longest mentally, physically, all of it?”

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Christian McCaffrey on the mentality required to navigate an NFL season.

“It’s 17 one-week seasons is the way I look at it…As a player in the NFL, you’re trained to forget…forget the last gameplan, forget the last play, forget the last team you played.”

“You’re in this constant mode of on to the next, completely being present where you are now.”

No one will consistently perform their best when their mind is stuck focusing on the rearview mirror.

Letting go is a skill. Being present is a skill. Elite performance requires both.

🎥: B Scar TV podcast

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

In 1992, Kurt Warner was the backup QB at Northern Iowa.

He was more talented than the starter, but couldn't get on the field. So he asked why.

Their answer stunned him...

He called it the "greatest lesson he ever learned about life and football."
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[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything.

He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected:

"The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice."

His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode.

"Practice? What're you talking about, practice?"

But then he did the math.

"In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days."

That's less than 5% of your year.

"95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice."

This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life.
1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt.
2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters.
3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become.
4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching.

Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit.

Practice is where trust is built.

How you show up daily is who you really are.
(🎥 @pttorch)
(🎥@kurt13warner)

[Isa @isssa0x]

A dead MIT professor accidentally destroyed the $20 billion executive coaching industry with one hour of lecture, and ten million people have already watched him do it.

He filmed it once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in that one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[seun @bigseun_]

Lmfaooooooo

[Holland_Live @Holland_Live]

At 27, Steven Bartlett was shown a loophole most people will never even hear about. His company went public. $50 million market cap. The bank just wires him $25 million in cash at near-zero interest. No tax. Ever.

"Someone came to me at 27 and said, Stephen, do you know you can just take a loan against your public stock?"

"If your stock is worth $50 million right now, they will give you a 50% loan without paying tax on that. Crazy low interest rate, like almost nothing. They will just transfer you today $25 million in cash and you will have to pay no tax"

"And guess what? If the stock comes down, they'll just sell it. So you'll never really have like a real sort of tax liability there"

"I couldn't believe this was possible. And so I was like, is this what all the rich people do? And they told me, yes, this is how it works. This is what Elon's doing. Elon is taking a pretty much tax-free loan against his Tesla stock and they are transferring him a billion dollars in cash and he can live off that, start new companies with that and never have to have a tax transaction"

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Cooper Kupp believes in order to perform at your best, you have to stop caring about the result

“Early on mindset in the moment was… Don’t mess up. Make sure I run the right route. Get to the right spot. I’ve got so much going through my head.”

“Jared threw such a great pass…I end up missing it…A game-winning touchdown. The results aren’t always going to tell you the truth. What’s your process like? How are you going about things?”

“People are going to hate to hear that this is my mindset… But you have to not care what happens. You have to not care what the result is.”

“Get completely past… The wins and the losses. Get completely past… What the stats are going to be.”

“I work from Monday to Saturday… To make sure I prepare… And do everything I possibly can… To be the best Cooper Kupp… That I can be on Sunday.”

“The things I eat. When I show up to work. The film I’m watching. I’m as intentional as I can possibly be.”

“It doesn’t matter. I’ve already done everything I possibly can… To be in that moment. All I can do is attack it. The results do not matter.”

“I get to play from victory… Not for victory.”

“The worst thing I can do… Is look back and be like… Why didn’t I go after it? I’m just going to send it. If it doesn’t work… It doesn’t work.”

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

Before I was 23, I'd been arrested 6 times.

I drank and did drugs more days than I didn't.

I was overweight and out of shape — fitness found me, not the other way around.

The first team I ever led, I fired at least half and the rest quit on me.

It took me years to stop being the problem.

Nobody's starting point matters.

Their stopping point does.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

I’ve lost money on over 9,000 ads I personally wrote.

I’ve had over 2000 1-on-1 sales consults reject my offer.

My first 300 episodes of my podcast I published with barely any downloads.

In 9 different business partnerships, I was the reason we failed.

3 times I pitched an entire audience - and sold no one.

Nobody is special.
Everybody sucks when they start.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

If you can't sit in a room and do nothing for 30 minutes.

Or read a novel for 2 hours without stopping.

You're brain is broken.

It's f*cking up almost every aspect of your life. Reversing this should be priority #1.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Simple mindset shifts:

– I'm not hurt, I'm healing.

– I'm not losing, I'm learning.

– I was not rejected, I was redirected.

Negative things happen. Negative mindsets make them harder.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You are your own worst enemy.

You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present.

Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do.

The only way to change is through action and outside pressure.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Great advice: do more
Also great advice: do less

How do you make sense of it?
Do more of fewer.

“Perfect every detail. Limit the number of details.” -Jack Dorsey

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

Becoming a multimillionaire at any age is easy. Here are the literal steps.

1) Move to Kansas. Get a $700 a month studio.

2) Find an online job to cover your rock-bottom lifestyle.

3) You are allowed to do 3 things. Work on your business. Read. Work out.

4) Do nothing else till you're making $50,000 a month.

The end. Do this and you'll
A) Have endless time to work on your craft.
B) Enjoy it, because your brain will have nothing else to latch onto.

This is the most surefire, near-guaranteed way to become successful. Almost no one will do it.

Most people turn 20. Get $100k in debt. Lock themselves in a "barely able to afford" lifestyle and then overload their minds with social media, TV, games, etc. Resulting in them having zero time or willpower to actually grow.

Address the root causes. Time and focus. Then it will come easy.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

What happens when you die:

They divide up your shit.

They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.

People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.

Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.

Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.

You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.

Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.

[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Tiger Woods on what it takes to be a savage.

"It's do all the nitty gritty details that are ugly, hard, and mundane...Quite frankly, a lot of times you don't see the results for maybe years to come, but it's the little details that it takes each and everyday to be successful."

Excellence filters people out through boredom, discomfort, and delayed rewards. It lives in the details that most people don't have the discipline or patience to honor every day.

📹: Skratch

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Lack of focus is a form of cowardice.
You don’t believe in yourself enough to go all in.