Almost foolproof ways to Compete
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🏀 #1 - Favorite thing we listened to 🎧
🏀 #2 - Favorite thing we watched 👀
🏀 #3 - Favorite action 🎥
💥 Do you compete? 💥
One of the most significant ingredients to success is your ability to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Your comfort zone is your enemy. You have to step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself constantly.
There is no reward for playing it safe.
💥 GO OUT AND PRACTICE AND PLAY WITH THE BEST 💥
Geno Auriemma on Toughness and how he gets his players to Compete 🎧
💥 If you had less than a zero percent chance of winning, would you still compete?
💥 How hard will you fight when you know you’ll lose?
Compete & Have Fun 👀
It’s hard to compete with someone when they’re enjoying what they’re doing.
One way to compete is to express your personality in your vocation.
Josh Waitzkin, the chess prodigy turned martial artist champion said:
"I expressed my personality through chess, which, in my observation of competitors in any discipline, is a really fundamental idea. Those who succeed at the highest level, I think, basically manifest their unique character through their discipline."
When who you are comes out in your craft, you have a huge advantage over your “competitor.”
MUST ADD ACTION 🎥
Furman Actions:
Clip #1 Delay over backdoor.
Clip#2 Delay over Twirl.
This can also be ran out of the Horns alignment.
Be world-class in what you do 🌎
🔥 World-class is uncommon amongst the uncommon.
🔥 So in a room of uncommon people, you’re the outlier.
Here’s an example: