Valuetainment - June 01, 2020


Episode 472： Don't Leave It To Chance

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
LeBron James Hibbert Patrick Bett David Akim Olajuwon Dwyane Wade Kenny Smith Christian George Bush Snapchat
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

194.63

Word count

1,082

Sentence count

94


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how to deal with adversity and how to make the most out of it. There are two schools of thought when it comes down to opportunities. One is about not stressing about it, the other is about being prepared for it.

Transcript

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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.