Omar Usman – 3 Things I Learned from Training Camp Jon Gordon
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In this video, John Gordon shares three things he learned from the book Training Camp by John Gordon. The first thing is that people have a growth mindset, which is to improve every day and to be able to perform. The second lesson is that people have a mental toughness, which is a reflection of their success. The third lesson is that people have a focus on working on their fundamentals to set them apart and create a difference in the world.
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Hey, guys. In today's video, I'm sharing 3
things I learned from the book Training Camp
by John Gordon. This book is a fable
about an undrafted NFL rookie trying to make
the team, and he gives a couple of
general lessons, things that we've kinda heard before,
but it's the last lesson that I'm going
to share that really drives the point home.
So the first thing that I learned was
mindset
and mindset is something that we're all familiar
with, having a growth mindset, having an abundance
mindset, all these different things.
But in the book, John Gordon emphasizes having
a mindset of improvement.
Having a mindset of basically saying that everyday
I'm going to do something to try to
make myself better. See, the default is that
people are average or sometimes even mediocre.
It requires intentional effort on your part to
make sure that you're continuously getting better. It
reminds me of a quote by John Maxwell
where he says,
age and wisdom don't always come together. Sometimes
age comes alone. If you're not intentionally making
an effort to get better, it won't happen.
So you have to have that mindset.
The second lesson that I wanted to share
was that of mental toughness.
And there's a really good sports analogy and
that is that basically when the pressure is
on, when the game is on the line,
you have to be able to perform. And
in order to be able to perform, your
daily process has to be there. You have
to have been showing up to practice
100 and 100 of times. You have to
have come in and put in the work.
It reminds me of a couple of years
ago in the NBA finals when Ray Allen
hit that shot at the end of game
6 to set, you know, to win the
game for the Miami Heat and eventually beat
the Spurs.
He's done that shot so many times thousands
of times and seen it go in that
it just that one happened to go in
as well. That doesn't happen on accident. It
comes after hours upon hours upon hours of
putting in the work and that's where that
mental toughness comes in in order to be
able to seize the moment
and rise up to it and finish strong
in that way, you have to put in
the work every single day. And the last
lesson and really this is the lesson that
tie it doesn't just tie it all together.
It's what stood out the most to me
and it's why I wanted to share this
book.
And that is that the people who are
great or successful,
they're not extraordinary.
They just happen to do the ordinary things
a lot better than everybody else. And he
gives a really good example.
He says, what's the difference between a baseball
player who bats 350 versus 250?
And he says the difference is of someone
who bats 350
is gonna be in the Hall of Fame.
He's gonna have all types of endorsements, fame,
you know, all these different things. And someone
that bats 250 is going to be an
average baseball player. To put that in perspective,
Derek Jeter's lifetime
batting average was 310.
But that's something that makes him a superstar,
a hall of famer, and all of these
different things.
When you break it down, over the course
of a season of baseball, a 162
games,
4 to 5 at bats per game.
The difference between hitting 350 and 250
is barely 1 and a half a little
more than 1 and a half hits per
week.
The person who is getting all of the
accolades and is so great and is a
superstar
is really only hitting the ball once or
twice more per week than the average person.
There's not a lot that separates them. They're
not doing some they're not batting 700.
They're not batting 800. They're not doing something
ridiculously crazy that nobody else can do. They're
doing the ordinary things a little bit better
than everybody else and that's what separates them.
And for me, this was the biggest takeaway
is that
you have to have the process, you have
to put in the work, but it's putting
in the work on those ordinary things that
everybody else ignores. And that's why after a
game, you'll hear people say things like, we
moved the ball better, we played defense harder,
we played with more energy. They sound like
cliches because that's what everyone ends up repeating
over and over again but the reality is
those are the fundamentals.
And when you master the fundamentals better than
somebody else and you have a focus
on working on those fundamentals over and over
again so that you can do them a
little bit better than the other person,
that's enough to set you apart. That's 3
things I learned from the book training camp
by John Gordon. Hope you enjoyed the video.
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