Scott Parker

Real estate market insights 🏡📈 , sales and marketing, leadership, bibliophile and a little ⚽️🏈🏀.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

Love this…

[Del Current @DelCurrent]

Parents often want their kid’s development to look like a meme stock.

I want it to look like a mutual fund.

Steady growth.
Low drama.
Consistent deposits.
Years of compounding.

The goal isn’t to be the best 10-12 year-old in the gym.

The goal is to be the player everyone wishes they had invested in 5 years later 🏀📈

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@danorlovsky7 Everything I do well as a parent was a piece of great advice a parent I admire gave me.

That’s the lesson for me.

Being a great parent is living in a constant state of feeling like you are failing. Because you care so much to get it right.

That’s enough to be great in the end.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

Here’s my two cents:

Weary of the parent dishing advice.
Admire the parent seeking advice.

In that vulnerability alone, you are doing it right my man.

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

I take a lot of pride in being a Dad

I take a lot of pride in “trying” to be a great Dad.

I STINK at being a Dad to 14 year old boys! (Only other thing I stink at is wakesurfing and fishing)

Dads who have gone through that age and come out the other side in a good place

-what’s the best thing you did?
-what’s the worst thing you did?

🙏👊🏻

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

Best coach on the planet…

[U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @USWNT]

One level harder 👊

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@W_Drehs Yes, Wayne!

This is way better than the “America doesn’t deserve a World Cup because it lacks football culture, racism, and bad infrastructure” Euro crowd that is rage baiting in my algorithm right now!

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

I love this so much…

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:

Two kids. One rich. One poor.

Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.

The rich kid has two choices.

Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.

Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.

The poor kid has two choices too.

Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.

Or outwork everyone in the room.

Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.

Same choice for all of them.

Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.

The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.

The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.

Greatness doesn't come from where you start.

It comes from which kid you choose to feed.

Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@realEstateTrent Very true.

Birth order also a major thing. It’s like parents have to go through a few rounds to have their delusions knocked out of them.

Alos correlation b/w parents athletic success and how obnoxious they are. Didn’t make JV or pass on the genes? Living even more vicariously!

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

Great life advice in general. Like the agent who switches brokerages but meets with their broker. Not easy. But right.

Let’s also point out that coaches do this to kids all the time. Don’t let them know they went with a different recruit. Be a leader, do the next right thing.

[Jaylen Thompson @CoachJThompson0]

Parents please tell your child if they have received an offer from a coach and I mean a real offer and the coach has invested their time in them. Make sure they CONTACT the coach when they decided to go elsewhere.

Recruits you never know who you will run into later in life and coaches always remember who do it the “right way”

Finding out via social media is crazy

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@pntrack Effortless is a top 5 book of all time.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@theChicagoStars Love to see it!

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@IAmSteveHarvey Just keep writing your story. The journey is perfectly messy.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

This is wonderful advice from Jensen.

[Founder Mode @Founder_Mode_]

Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience."

"I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that.

Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school.

You were very successful. You're top of your class.

Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet.

You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations.

People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success.

I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you. And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand, but there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering.

And to this day, I use the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee. And I mean that. Boy, this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering.

And I mean that in a happy way, because you want to train, you want to refine the character of your company.

You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence.

Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people.

It's formed out of people who suffered.

And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it. For all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

Love this!

[Coach Hill @CoachMarcusHill]

Just saw a video of a coach doing an interview with the perfect quote: there are three types of kids on a team

1)kid that wants a tee shirt
2)kid that wants to be a starter
3)kid that wants to be a champion.

All three are fine just don’t be the kid that only wants the team tee shirt pretending you want to be a champion.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

This is one of the coolest forms of philanthropy I’ve seen. And the joy you get from watching all these athletes just heightens the Olympic experience. Dope.

[Maxwell Meyer @mualphaxi]

Super interesting: billionaire Ross Stevens is giving $200k to all US Olympians, half as a gift at age 45 or 20 yrs after their Olympic debut, half as a big life insurance policy.

Just give money to people pursuing human excellence, striving for greatness? How novel. I like it.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@VladTheInflator I manage a real estate company. This doesn’t trigger me like you’d think it would.

What I would say though, is that it’s no different than travel, insurance, or any kind of agent.

Not all are created equal. But the true pros are worth their weight in gold.

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

Not a lot of institutional investment in our market but this is a pretty big deal nationally.

Very interested to watch how this plays out…

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

BREAKING: President Trump announces steps to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.

"People live in homes, not corporations." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@pntrack Readers become writers! When’s that book coming out?!

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

@realEstateTrent I can’t explain why but “warm chocolate chip cookies” triggers me. Like nails on a chalkboard. Is it just me?!

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

The big question in my mind…why did it take them so long to do this?

[Inman @Inman]

Google is displaying real estate listings as search results in some markets — prompting questions about IDX violations and analyst speculation about risks to the portals. https://t.co/6gCsTeHkbl

[Scott Parker @jgrScott]

If you want to BE great things.

You have to DO great things

And then you’ll HAVE great things.

As I get older I see clearly that super successful person I know has a massive bias toward action and doing hard things.

Just DO it. Over & over even when you don’t want too.