The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement.
Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.
To attract better, you have to become better. You can't do the same things and expect change. Transform your mindset. Upgrade your habits. Think positive. Be hopeful and consistent with your evolution. It all starts with you and how you feel about yourself.
Good example of strategy in life. 90% positioning, 10% explosive execution when the timing is right. Activity without achievement is a false god of the modern world.
I was watching this Kylian Mbappe documentary on the BBC and Arsene Wenger said something that stayed with me.
He said: “(To succeed) you first have to think I belong to this world”.
As simple as those words are, it’s the reason many people fail at anything they do. They don’t see themselves good enough. They don’t see themselves capable. They don’t deem themselves worthy or deserving of the opportunities they have.
He concluded that statement with “(you must think)it’s natural of me to express my talent and make a difference.”
Imagine living everyday like that, going into the world with the full knowledge that you have a place in it, and everything you do to show yourself, and your qualities to the world is natural and you’re expressing yourself to make a difference.
I think that’s powerful.
I always recommend watching, listening to, and reading the stories of elite athletes. There’s always a difference.
It’s talent, it’s strength, it’s some bit of luck, it’s strategy, it’s the environment.
No matter how good you may be, if you don’t have parents or coaches who see that talent early, and carefully make important decisions for you, you’ll not become as big as your promise foretells.
It’s why I’ll always respect Victor Osimhen and his story. Becoming what he became almost against all odds isn’t what many do, as we can see from the many footballers who never lived up to their levels.
Each time I watch sportsmen, elite sportsmen and the roles coaching and their parents play in what they become, I’m convinced any Nigerian footballer born in Nigeria who makes it big on a global scale is an outlier.
And it’s mentality. Some people can’t hear can’t.
RECOVER FASTER THAN EVERYONE
Lose the day. Come back at night. Miss the gym. Go tomorrow. Waste a week. Win the next one. Get embarrassed. Stay visible. Get rejected. Try again. Fall behind. Move anyway. Stop turning every mistake into a new identity. Stop making failure mean more than it does. Stop disappearing every time life proves you’re still human. The men who win aren’t perfect. They just don’t stay gone.
The cheat code is simple.
Become impossible to keep down.
Game theory teaches: never enter a game you haven’t studied. Never show your hand before the money is on the table. And never play to be liked — play to build so much leverage that the rules eventually stop applying to you entirely. Most people lose not because they are outworked but because they are outplayed. They do not understand the game they are in, they reveal too much too soon and they care more about approval than position. Learn the game first. Move quietly. Build until you have enough leverage to write your own rules.
.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:
“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”
“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”
“I never take in any negativity.”
Every man eventually discovers that competence is the only real stabilizer of self-esteem. No amount of praise, affirmation, or philosophical comfort can replace the confidence that comes from knowing you can produce results even when conditions are hostile.