76. How To Master The Moment
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Summary
In this episode of The Realists, Andy talks about the hole in his game that came from watching the documentary Michael Jordan: The Last Dance. He also talks about a scene in the movie that changed his perspective on basketball and the mentality in the locker room.
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told my teacher dumb bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living
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spoke it till existence mo changed to 50 got mo cost than did i only weigh 180 but my watch
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cost 250 what's up guys it's andy and this is the show for the realists say goodbye the lies
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the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys today
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just got a little message for you honestly didn't even decide to record this message until just this
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morning uh so you're gonna get a little live friday fire today is friday uh october 9th all right and
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what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna get into a topic that i've talked about on a couple other podcasts
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uh if you if you listen to some of the podcasts i've done with some of my buddies but i've never
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talked about on this show and i think it's super important and i want to cover it i've talked about
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it inside of some of the long episodes but never really a dedicated an episode to this topic
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but i think it's so powerful and so important that uh you know i wanted to dedicate just a short
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little talk that'll maybe help you guys get your mind around something because this topic that i'm
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about to get into really takes some practice to learn how to do uh it's something that i have had a
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massive hole in my game uh for the last 22 years of my professional career um so i wanted to hit you
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guys with this topic now where i got this topic from was i was watching the documentary uh about
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i don't know maybe a month ago on michael jordan the last dance uh it's got tim grover in it who you
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guys all know is one of my great friends and uh a good good good man that i believe in wholeheartedly
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um and you know of course it's got michael jordan it's got uh you know dennis rodman it's got all
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the guys that that pippen it's got all the guys from that era right and we talk and they're all kind
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of talking about michael jordan and their last season and that's why they call it the last dance
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and and it's cool because they go from like you know back when michael was in high school to when he
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was in college to the seasons before the last season and they really cover his whole career uh
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in detail and it's very entertaining to to watch but i am always trying to be a student just like
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you guys you guys wouldn't try to be you guys are students by default if you're even listening to this
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because if you weren't uh listening to this you wouldn't you wouldn't care about success so i'm just
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like you guys i'm always looking for the guy who knows some things that i don't know and watching
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that documentary really exposed a huge hole in my personal game and i want to share this with you
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guys because since watching it i've been conscious of it and man it's made a huge difference in such a
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short time okay now if you haven't watched the documentary uh you need to go watch it right if
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you have watched the documentary you're going to know and i'm going to reference a certain scene
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in this documentary um there was a certain point and everybody knows how awesome michael jordan is
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right uh whether you're a bass i'm not really even a basketball fan i'm a sports fan i like football i
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like baseball i like hockey but basketball is probably my least favorite sport just because i never played
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it all right and i'm terrible at it if i if you just trust me all right uh but i love studying high
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achievers and it's hard to argue that michael jordan wasn't the best at what he does i mean he's in the
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conversation i think he's uh you know head and shoulders the best player that ever played and
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probably the best athlete and the best mentality in sports that we've ever had and so when everybody
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thinks of michael jordan we always hear the famous things like you know he was intense he was mean
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sometimes he was angry he was a tough player uh you know he he wasn't always nice and practical we
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always hear this shit okay but watching him interact on that documentary gave me a different perspective
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perspective and that perspective it came to me in an instant there was a scene in the documentary
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where michael was uh they were before one of his big games i believe it was a playoff game
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and it was literally right before they're getting ready to play and he's in the locker room in one of
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the side rooms of the locker area with one of the security guys and they're flipping quarters all right
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and this is literally like right during his the middle of when he should be preparing and he
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should be like you know we think he should be preparing he should be focused you know getting
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intense ready to go to battle but he's not he's flipping quarters and he's laughing with his security
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guy and they're playing a little game and they're having a fucking blast and what i saw in that moment
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was so profound for me i just want to share it with you guys he was present okay he was present in the
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moment and that's really what makes great people great that's what makes great athletes great
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athletes that's what makes great entrepreneurs great entrepreneurs that's what makes great anything
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great okay they're able to take and i never saw this this way until just recently but it all clicked
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for me they're able to take whatever it is right in front of them whether it be a conversation whether
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it be a game of quarters whether it be uh practicing whether it be lifting weights whether it be strategic
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uh you know planning strategy in a meeting it doesn't matter what you're doing or what he was doing
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he was all in on that so when they were practicing chess passes he was a hundred percent into chess
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passes when they were practicing layups he was a hundred percent there for layups he wasn't thinking
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about his girlfriend or his you know uh problems off the court or his argument that he had with you
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know ownership or any of these other distractions and we could come up with i don't know a trillion
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distractions for our own lives i mean how many times do you find yourself in a situation where
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you're lifting weights and you're trying to get better or you're sitting in front of your computer
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and you're trying to create something or you're writing emails and you're thinking about all this
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other shit you're thinking about this argument you had an hour ago you're thinking about this uh car
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but uh accident you got in on the way to work that was a little fender bender or you're thinking
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about all these little distractions you're thinking about you know how your friends want you to go out
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tonight shit like this okay and you're mindlessly going through the motions of whatever task you have
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in front of you and then because you're mindlessly going through those motions and just getting it done
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as opposed to putting the proper intent behind it it really slows down your progress because if you
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think about it wouldn't you be a lot better if you were focused when you were doing the things
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you're supposed to be doing wouldn't you be a lot better to execute on emails or on uh you know
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whatever content you're trying to create or whatever meeting you're trying to have or whatever product
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you're trying to create or whatever conversation you're trying to have if you weren't worried about
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a million different things i know i would be more effective and i know i have been this is something
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that has helped me tremendously in the short time i've noticed it and become aware of it and i want to
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give you guys the gift of this awareness okay be aware when you're there to execute and you find
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yourself drifting off into other things okay that's not what great people do what great people do is they
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pour their focus into what they're doing at the time and they address that then when something else
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happens and it's time to do this they address this okay and then when something else happens and it's
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now it's time for that they address that all right they go through their day
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completely designed to be present in whatever it is they're handling at the moment which allows them
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to a be more successful and effective with it and b be happy this is the this is the biggest thing about
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it be happy you're able to execute better and be happier doing it you're able to have fun doing it
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because you're not allowing yourself to be distracted by all the other shit and guys this is a skill but
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it's not a skill that takes years to develop it's skill that takes weeks to develop if you just become
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present with it so i wanted to share that with you i wanted to share with you the idea that maybe you
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aren't as present as you should be maybe you're letting yourself get caught up in all these other
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things that life has and guys how many distractions are there right now there's probably more distractions
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in society right now than there ever has been that's arguable so can we focus during that time
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and be present in the conversations we have in the work that we do in the fun that we have so that we
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can actually be effective draw more of the good juice out of life and leave some of the stress and
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some of the anxiety and some of the pain on the table for someone else to take all right we don't
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have to be miserable to be excellent we don't have to be angry to be excellent okay we can take those
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negative feelings and turn them into productive action a hundred percent of the time but when you're
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producing that action and you're putting it into whatever it is you're into worry about that how good
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are your chest passes how good are your layups okay because i'm going to tell you right now
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everybody thinks in basketball you know 360 reverse slam dunks win the game and three pointers win the
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game that ain't true defensive fucking layups win the game it's the same in life fundamentals win the game
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how present are you in the fundamentals how present are you in the conversations how present are you
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when you're writing that email how present are you in that meeting because i'm going to tell you right
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now what happens is when you aren't present okay you haven't done your best work you know you haven't
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done your best work and that little friend of ours called anxiety starts to reel it's you know reel up
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like a little tornado inside of us because why because we know we aren't focused and we know we aren't
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present and we know we just missed on something that should have been an easy layup all right so if
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you want to be more effective and you want to be more happy learn to be present and trust that being
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present will not only make you more effective and more successful but it'll also make you happier
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and guys don't forget we don't advertise this show i don't pack it full ads this is for your value so
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if you got value if you love the show if it made you laugh if it made you think if it changed your
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perspective if you think you're you know like-minded friends would enjoy it please share the show okay
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that's how we grow grow the show organically if we do good the show grows if we don't do good i'm
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fine with the show not growing all right if you didn't like the show don't share it i'm cool with that
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but if it did give you perspective and it did help you please share the show that's my message for you
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guys this friday i hope you guys go out kick ass let this thing sink in think about this think about
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all the things that you miss because you're worried about other shit and and harness that into focus
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guys it sounds kind of hard but it's really not i've been able to fix this in myself very short time
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just by being aware so i wanted to give you guys that gift today i hope you have a great day