Built For Pressure

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Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

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We're going to talk about built for pressure today.

This is inspired by the Tim Grover, the trainer of Kobe and Jordan and D Wade and some of

the greatest basketball players of all time.

I think a lot of you guys know the book Relentless and that mindset.

So, you know, in life as we're going to climb, you know, most of you joining us and listening

this, you're on the grind for something.

So if you're trying to climb in anything, there's going to be levels.

If we go too many levels up, it comes with more pressure.

More pressure.

More pressure.

You know, imagine the Super Bowl, how much pressure is on those players.

Imagine how much more pressure is on that kicker.

How much pressure is on that quarterback.

How much pressure is on that five minute round as a young person growing up wanting to

fight in the UFC and you envision your whole life, you know, an opportunity to get this

belt, that pressure.

So how do we build that level of being able to handle that level of pressure and thrive

off of that level of pressure?

A lot of it, you know, comes from being super prepared to handle it.

And being prepared to handle it is going to come in the work and the practice and the

way that you practice and prepare.

But also, before you win, the big moment, there was a bunch of other losses that you had

to handle on your way that a lot of times people miss.

And those losses set you up.

Those moments when you didn't, if you're able to come back from that and learn from that,

that's exactly what will prepare you for that moment.

And so he always pushes Tim Grover, pushes that mentality of just never being satisfied.

You hear the stories that I'm having, you know, phone calls, you know, two, three, four

o'clock in the morning, you know, with the Kobe Bryant and just that was the level of

expectation of how locked in that they were elite.

When you set it the elite, elite performers don't need necessarily motivation.

They just need like this is the standard that I operate in and I'm operating with a level

of discipline because they're connected to exactly why it is that they're doing what

they're doing and they've learned to love the process that comes along with being able

to handle the pressure.

There's nothing normal about winning.

You know what I mean?

Everybody wants to win.

And the higher levels you go, the more people that are wanting that spot and wanting to

win is so there's nothing normal about winning is abnormal.

And I think what happens where people get discouraged is that they're looking for normal in winning

and the higher level of winning that you expect to be on the less normal it's going

to be.

So you can't be normal.

You can't think normal.

You can't operate normal.

You can't be around normal because there's nothing normal about it.

Standards, you know, it's like, man, this is the standard that I work towards.

This is how I operate.

This is, it's that that starts to remove the need for being motivated all the time.

I think that's a stigma.

That's something that people think that some of the greats and the people that they're

just always motivated.

Maybe they're motivated sometimes.

Maybe they find a way to motivate themselves.

But if you really dig deep, it's just, man, they got a, they got a standard of winning,

a standard of performing, a standard of preparing and it ain't even about the motivation.

This like as a professional, this is just what we got to do to win.

Because you got to win the war in your mind before it's ever a physical day.

So from ever going to win the war physically, I got to win the war mentally first and that

battling your mind is real.

Your mind has got to be stronger than the feelings that you have.

Because just some of the ways that we're wired a lot of times is our feeling is to like,

we're wired to like just be comfortable.

What do I got to do to put myself in a position of comfort?

When your mind has to, you have to start to grow your mind to be stronger than those feelings

and those emotions because more emotion equals typically less focus.

Fear, you know, when you start to feel that little bit of fear, use it.

How can I use it when you got it?

It's not like, oh, this is such a great thing.

But you know, if it's inevitable and you end up with levels of fear going through the

levels that you're heading in, you can either let it use you or you use it.

And if you just have the mindset of like, man, I'm not going to listen to this voice in

my mind that's telling me to be scared into how do I overcome this or how do I do this

anyway?

And I think doubt shows up when the preparation is incomplete.

Like the more that you can prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, the more confident

that you become.

And that's, you'll see pressure filled moments don't break the winners.

It starts to reveal the people that can separate themselves.

Like, there's people that have won, but man in the biggest moments, you know, who do you

want with the ball in their hands, Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, like they just are able

to perform in those critical moments.

And to perform in those critical moments and handle the pressure, the consistency in

your preparation is a non-negotiable.

The small habits matter in every rep counts if you're going to prepare for that moment.

If you're rituals and routine and the things that you're doing to practice and prepare

bends, then your results are going to bend or break.

The results are going to break.

The results are going to bend if you bend in your routine.

If you bend in the preparation, if you bend in the process.

And so learn not to bend in the process and to go hard in that process to prepare so

you're ready in that moment.

We got to manage anybody that's going for high performance.

You're going to have distractions.

I mean, we got distractions, whether you're looking for high performance or not high performance.

But especially when you're busy, you're going to have all types of things distracting you.

In the better you manage those distractions, the more advantage that you have.

Because there's going to be distractions.

And I think the competitive advantage is who manages those distractions better.

Just like in our business and sales, or in leadership building a business, building a team

of like, then there's always these distractions.

But the competitors that win if you really lock in and watch, they're managing those distractions

better than other people manage the same type of distractions.

There's no, in your mind, there's no off season.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, you got to stay locked in in the off season and in the moments when you're not even

pressing forward.

Yeah, we need to break once in a while.

You got to have a release once in a while.

You got to decompress once in a while.

But you got to stay locked in mentally more than other people are locked in mentally.

Winners don't ask when it's time to get to it.

How do I feel?

They ask, what is required of me to win?

Oh, I don't feel like it.

Or what happened?

I didn't feel my best or whatnot.

The people that are great, the people that go to the next levels is like, yeah, I don't

feel, but what's required of me?

What do I got to do in the process today?

What do I got to do?

Yesterday's success, you know, for the people that stop the climb, they eventually stop

winning.

Because they're yesterday's home runs, they think are going to win them today's games.

Yesterday's success buys you nothing today.

It's actually a threat to today because it's easier to learn from your losses sometimes.

You're more open-minded.

You're more hungry.

But yesterday's success, that ain't going to get you to victories tomorrow.

Don't celebrate these wins when you guys are winning out there too long.

Prepare for what's next.

What's coming up next?

And it's exhausting to be great.

You know, you can think, man, well, man, when can I enjoy myself?

How great do you want to be?

You just tell me how great you want to be and I'll let you know how long we can take

this break.

Because if you want to be the greatest of all time, if you want to be in the Hall of

Fame, if you want to be a world champ, if you want to be the 1% or the 1%, this is what

comes with it.

You can't celebrate those wins too long.

You can't do a job.

You won for the year, for the month, for the quarter.

LeBron been winning for 20 years.

Brady been winning for X amount of years, 11 super bowls.

We got to get prepared for what's next.

The work, like you get hired from your coach or from people not understanding, but the

work is always watching.

Even when no one else is watching, the work is watching.

Are you paying the price?

Are you going to be deserving of what it is that you're asking because in greatness and

being prepared to handle the highest levels that come with the highest pressures, there

is no finish line.

Your finish line, hey, congratulations, man.

You made it to the next level.

All right, what do I get?

You get higher standards.

You get higher expectations.

You get more pressure.

And so I think the mental closeout of this is identifying what level do I want to play

on?

Do I want to be the greatest?

Do I want to be 1% or 1% or I just want to be top 5%.

And when you realize what percent you want to be, how great you want to be, you got to

understand that it's exhausting to be great.

If you want to be great and the more great, you want to be the more exhausting that it

could be.

And study those people that have accomplished things that you want to accomplish.

And don't just study their outcomes, study their inputs.

Don't watch Brady Super Bowl come from behind victory.

Go rewind the tape and learn.

What was his output?

What were his sacrifices?

What was his work ethic?

Look at those moments to learn and compare yourself to what is it going to take for you.

Because there's nothing normal about greatness.

And greatness comes with a certain level of pressure.

And so if you're going to try to aim for greatness, you've got to study the people that

have already aimed and attained greatness and handled that level of pressure.

And what type of preparation do those people have?

That would be your homework assignment.

But my homework assignment for you would be, and there's all different people, all different

walks of life listening to this, think about, what do I want to be great in right now?

Even if I, man, I'm listening, I just want to be a great wife.

I just want to be a great mother.

I just want to be a great grandfather.

I want to be a great basketball player.

I want to be a great wrestler.

I want to be a great business person.

I want to be a billionaire.

I want to be whatever it is.

Okay.

First generation billionaire, go find the first generation billionaire and go back to, what

did they do?

How did they handle the pressure?

How did they, what can you relate to in the person that made it in the level, in the

thing that you're trying to make it in and study what it is that they were doing and

make sure that you're watching those things.

And that you start to implement and go to work with those things in order to go to the

next level.

I do believe, most people were born with some sort of a gift that you were given.

And this calling in you to have this higher level of performance and then just some people

just settle or they break during the pressure.

And so, find what that is, find where you're trying to go, find what you want to accomplish.

You'll handle the pressure if you can handle the process and the work that goes into the

process.

Okay.

As always, I mean, you're great.

If you're spending 15 minutes pouring into yourself like this, not only are we grateful,

but I understand that you probably have some greatness inside you because that already

takes a little bit of 1% worth, 1% effort.

And so, wishing you greatness this upcoming week, wishing you to be 1% better than you

were last week, wishing you discipline, wishing you commitment to the process and I was

getting one step closer to who we want to be.

As always, if this helped anybody, could you share it with somebody that you think we

can impact?

And we're looking forward to spending some more time with you next week.

And as always, thank you for joining us on another episode of the Grandcasts.

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