Valuetainment - June 01, 2020


Episode 472： Don't Leave It To Chance


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

194.62766

Word Count

1,082

Sentence Count

84


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 There are two different schools of thought when it comes down to opportunities.
00:00:25.080 There's one community, these are a lot of motivational speakers that'll say things like,
00:00:28.400 if you missed out on an opportunity, don't worry about it.
00:00:32.420 Life is abundant with a number of opportunities.
00:00:35.620 Another one's around the corner, it's like missing the bus.
00:00:37.840 If you missed three 330s around the corner, it's going to be all right.
00:00:41.060 Don't stress out about it.
00:00:42.480 That's one community.
00:00:43.740 Here's the other community.
00:00:44.800 You ready?
00:00:45.520 This other community says, in your lifetime, you're probably going to get a couple big opportunities
00:00:49.480 that are going to present themselves.
00:00:51.380 Could be a meeting, could be a sit down, could be a interaction with somebody that you could
00:00:56.600 impress the person, where the person goes back and says, I want to do some kind of business
00:00:59.460 with you.
00:01:00.320 That one opportunity could completely change your life.
00:01:03.600 Don't screw it up.
00:01:05.040 Be prepared for it.
00:01:06.700 That's one school of thought.
00:01:07.780 Who is right?
00:01:08.440 I'm going to tell you a story here.
00:01:09.940 It's 2012-2013 NBA season.
00:01:12.860 The Miami Heat are facing off the Pacers.
00:01:15.720 That year, the Pacers were very strong.
00:01:18.000 They had a strong center, Hibbert, and they're going against each other.
00:01:20.880 Miami has LeBron, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and this is a good matchup.
00:01:24.480 They go in the playoffs.
00:01:25.760 Game one, Miami against the Pacers.
00:01:28.640 There's only 2.2 seconds left on the shot clock.
00:01:32.500 Pacers are ahead, 102-101.
00:01:35.600 The game is in Miami.
00:01:36.560 If Pacers win, this is a big statement to the world, and it hurts Miami because they beat
00:01:41.580 them in their home.
00:01:42.980 What happens with 2.2 seconds left?
00:01:44.860 The coach, I know this because he's a Laker coach, not Vogel, decides to take Hibbert out.
00:01:49.900 He sits him down.
00:01:51.460 I'm like, what are you doing?
00:01:52.620 Man, this guy's playing incredible defense.
00:01:56.180 You got to keep him in.
00:01:57.160 He takes him out.
00:01:58.640 Inbound pass to who?
00:02:00.640 LeBron James by the free throw line.
00:02:03.340 LeBron turns around, goes in for the left-handed layup with zero left on the shot clock.
00:02:07.980 They win the game.
00:02:09.180 Everybody's jumping all over the place.
00:02:11.660 Afterwards, commentators are talking, and everybody says, well, you know, this sometimes happens,
00:02:16.620 but they got to come back, and this is when you got to be mentally tough, and this is when
00:02:19.340 you got to go, and I bet the coach in the locker room, he's probably saying this.
00:02:22.680 What do you think the coach is saying in the locker room?
00:02:24.140 We're going to be all right.
00:02:25.120 We can make the recovery.
00:02:27.200 Kenny Smith turns around.
00:02:28.820 He was a two-time champion with the Houston Rockets with Akim Olajuwon.
00:02:32.000 He says the following thing here.
00:02:33.560 He says, I don't know if I agree with you guys.
00:02:35.300 I said, what do you mean?
00:02:36.220 I just don't agree with you.
00:02:37.460 Why not?
00:02:38.680 He says, look, to assume that you're going to go back to the finals again, it's very naive.
00:02:43.400 He says, I have a lot of friends that I've played basketball with for a long time.
00:02:46.500 Great basketball players, and they had a chance one time to go to the finals and win,
00:02:50.660 and they didn't, and they thought they were going to go back, and many times they never,
00:02:55.340 ever went to the finals ever again, and they never got a chip, and the name of the game
00:03:00.120 is getting a chip.
00:03:00.920 Never went back again.
00:03:02.420 I sat there, and I'm listening to Kenny, saying, wow, pretty powerful statement.
00:03:05.800 A little bit demoralizing.
00:03:07.480 Not the most optimistic statement you want to hear, but guess what happened?
00:03:11.280 They never went to the championship ever again, and they could have that series.
00:03:14.260 They actually could have won the championship.
00:03:16.940 We could today be saying that the Pacers were a one-time champion during that time, and LeBron
00:03:21.400 would have only had two rings instead of his three, but what happened?
00:03:24.220 They choked.
00:03:25.220 They didn't make the right decision.
00:03:26.300 The opportunity presented itself.
00:03:28.020 They didn't make the right decision.
00:03:29.240 How does this apply to you and I?
00:03:31.540 You know, these weird times that we're living in with the coronavirus and the pandemic, these
00:03:37.320 are very weird times.
00:03:38.460 There's going to be a very small community of people, I guarantee you, that are sitting
00:03:44.900 around saying, I don't know why I'm optimistic about something good happening for me around
00:03:50.520 the corner.
00:03:52.100 Everybody's telling me it's the end of the world.
00:03:54.380 Zombies are going to be running out here soon.
00:03:56.820 Apocalypse, Armageddon, whatever you want to call it.
00:03:59.600 All these videos going viral, imposing so much fear.
00:04:02.340 I think everything's going to be all right, okay?
00:04:05.380 That small community, post-pandemic, a crazy opportunity is going to present itself to
00:04:11.180 them, and they're going to capitalize.
00:04:13.600 But it's also going to be a majority of people in the world who, during these times, are going
00:04:17.620 to get softer.
00:04:18.800 They're going to get casual.
00:04:20.300 They're going to pick up bad habits.
00:04:21.980 They're going to watch so much TV.
00:04:23.340 They're probably going to put on 5% to 10% of their body weight, gaining 5, 10, 15,
00:04:27.940 20 pounds of weight, just get a little bit more casual with their energy, and that opportunity
00:04:34.180 is also going to present itself to those people, but they're not going to be ready for it.
00:04:37.420 My challenge to you is, don't take these times lightly and get caught and glued to the TV
00:04:42.460 watching every other news as if you have any major influence to be able to slow this thing
00:04:48.700 down, unless if you're somebody that's directly working with pharma or directly working with
00:04:53.080 scientists or Fauci or the president.
00:04:54.780 And unless if you're somebody involved with helping come up with a cure, keep at it.
00:05:00.020 Study every single thing that's going on.
00:05:01.840 But if you're not, this is a very good time to recreate yourself.
00:05:05.480 So when that great opportunity presents itself, you capitalize.
00:05:09.220 Thanks, everybody, for listening.
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00:05:30.760 With that being said, have a great day today.
00:05:32.560 Take care, everybody.
00:05:33.300 Bye-bye.