Most young athletes want things fast and easy – D1 scholarship, turning pro, going to the olympics. Boredom is their great enemy and fear. Whatever success they may have is short lived, it slips through their hands as fast as it comes in. You, on the other hand, want to outlast your rivals. You are building the foundation for something that can continue to expand. To make this happen, you will have to find the right coach, mentor, and support group. You must learn early on to endure the hours of practice and drudgery, knowing that in the end all of that time will translate into a higher pleasure – mastery of a craft and of yourself. Your goal is to reach the ultimate skill level – an intuitive feel for what must come next.

If you are able to overcome your anxieties and forge a fearless attitude towards life, something strange and remarkable will occur — that margin of control over circumstance increases. At its utmost point, we can even create the circumstances themselves, which is the source of the tremendous power that fearless types have had throughout history. The people who “RESPECT THE PROCESS” in their lives all share certain qualities — supreme boldness, unconventionality, fluidity, and a sense of urgency — that give them this unique advantage over their rivals.”

The episode goes on to break down this law into its components, and details examples of each, as well as actionable guidelines for student-athletes, sports-parents, and coaches.

It’s a conversation you should listen to and digest, and then refer back to constantly. This is one of my favorite episodes, it provides a set of principles by which you should live by. I definitely recommend.

Quotes

This must be the power and the direction of your mind whenever you encounter some problem — to bore deeper and deeper until you get at something basic and at the root.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.


Keep in mind the following: what you really value in life is ownership, not money. If ever there is a choice — more money or more responsibility — you must always opt for the latter. A lower – paying position that offers more room to make decisions and carve out little empires is infinitely preferable to something that pays well but constricts your movements.

Events in life are not negative or positive. They are completely neutral…Things merely happen to you. It is your mind that chooses to interpret them as negative or positive.


Most people wait too long to go into action, generally out of fear. They want more money or better circumstances. You must go the opposite direction and move before you think you are ready.

Understand: it is not only what you do that must have flow, but also how you do things. It is your strategies, your methods of attacking problems, that must constantly be adapted to circumstances.


Forgetting is a skill that you must develop in order to have emotional flow. If you cannot help but feel anger or disgust in the moment, make it a point to not let it remain the following day.