can guarantee you that for the most part
you weren’t always good I started
basketball fifth grade and let me tell
you I sucked I was terrible I wanted to
quit how many of you have ever felt this
way whether it’s sports or art or math
or whatever it is you’re good at did you
have a little quick if you truly love
something I can guarantee you like
quitting is not answer close your eyes
and think about this and what it means
to you in your life you have to be
willing to be bad before you can be
great you have to be willing to fail
before you just think about that you
have to be willing to fail before you
can succeed you have to be willing to be
bad for you can be great growth requires
persistence what is that really here’s a
real order example of something that
meets resistance think of an airport in
these resistance from the
to give a lift to fly it’s a pretty
simple concept this same concept applies
to to success can’t fight oftentimes
when we fail we consider ourselves to be
failures fail what is failure failure is
an occurrence and not really there for
you and I cannot be failures we can
still fail but it isn’t the failure
Center finest successes in trying so
they come from so how many of you
basketball players in you have ever
dreamed of dunking I had dreams of dark
evil fifth grade when I started playing
on school I have tried over and over and
over and over again it must have been
10,000 times I’ll bet you’ll be able to
do by ninth grade my uncle to totally
I’ll dude innate i replied unless the
beverage a homophone i was created I
went to the grind house as my coach
Shaun Phillips call said when the player
puts in hours upon hours of work on this
game by seventh grade I could finally
begin to touch the ring and I started to
try to go one two three I tried over and
bye-bye my eighth grade year I could
finally begin to grab the guy tried at
least 7,000 miles 7451 7452 if someone
told you to say 10,000 attempted ducks
to be a warning what would you do you
probably go out every single day and try
to talk contribute language you begin to
get close 9999 thousand nine hundred
ninety 15 9999 dad at the camera ten
thousand you did you take all that time
and finally done in many ways like this
like this except we don’t know what
we’re reaching for if you’re trying to
get a job but you can’t you have to try
over and over and over you can’t find
the one you are stick with if you’re
trying to write a song you have to put
in hundreds of thousands of different
layers to find the one you put out life
in many ways is like tons there’s even a
popular rule by researcher mountain
bible that supports the idea that it
takes 10,000 hours to turn raw talent
into success even michael jordan was cut
from his basketball team his freshman
year can you imagine saying no to be my
Jordan life in many ways is like this
you have to get lowered to jump higher
back to basketball in my opinion it
takes one year to understand two years
to know what to do three years to become
to be good in our eternity to become a
master my first year of basketball I
played on five different teams in an
over a hundred games in most of you know
that’s more than an MBA place for
regular see my second year I got better
my third year I joined the national team
called why’d you see 36 and we respond
sir diabetes this is one of the few
things in life that I truly loved and
willing to do anything to stay on I put
in hours upon hours of work every week
and tell myself that I’m getting tired
this is what separates me from the rest
of the world oftentimes what it would
rain I was survived side and put in my
hours I have played against some of the
best teams in what I updating some of
the best players and teams in the
country and have been extremely helpful
fine I also realized our hard work does
pay off oftentimes when we fall we get
scars many times people have come to me
and told me all I want to get rid of my
scratch because it I’ve told them in
response don’t get rid of your stars
because they tell the story of who you
are they tell it they tell the stories
not only you can tell i have many scars
internally
but I know that they tell the story how
I walked crawled graham and even jumped
and eventually go so what if it’s not
basketball what if it’s being a
stay-at-home wall so being a mechanic
your goal might not be too dumb but we
are still moving towards greatness
together become the best version of
yourself don’t try to be anything you’re
not when you look at yourself into
realer in the mirror you must realize
that you are who you are so why try to
be anything different and remember you have to be willing to be bad