Omar Usman – 3 Things I Learned from Training Camp Jon Gordon

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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