Episode 472： Don't Leave It To Chance
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Summary
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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There are two different schools of thought when it comes down to opportunities.
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There's one community, these are a lot of motivational speakers that'll say things like,
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if you missed out on an opportunity, don't worry about it.
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Life is abundant with a number of opportunities.
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Another one's around the corner, it's like missing the bus.
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If you missed three 330s around the corner, it's going to be all right.
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This other community says, in your lifetime, you're probably going to get a couple big opportunities
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Could be a meeting, could be a sit down, could be a interaction with somebody that you could
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impress the person, where the person goes back and says, I want to do some kind of business
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That one opportunity could completely change your life.
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They had a strong center, Hibbert, and they're going against each other.
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Miami has LeBron, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and this is a good matchup.
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There's only 2.2 seconds left on the shot clock.
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If Pacers win, this is a big statement to the world, and it hurts Miami because they beat
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The coach, I know this because he's a Laker coach, not Vogel, decides to take Hibbert out.
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LeBron turns around, goes in for the left-handed layup with zero left on the shot clock.
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Afterwards, commentators are talking, and everybody says, well, you know, this sometimes happens,
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but they got to come back, and this is when you got to be mentally tough, and this is when
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you got to go, and I bet the coach in the locker room, he's probably saying this.
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What do you think the coach is saying in the locker room?
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He was a two-time champion with the Houston Rockets with Akim Olajuwon.
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He says, I don't know if I agree with you guys.
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He says, look, to assume that you're going to go back to the finals again, it's very naive.
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He says, I have a lot of friends that I've played basketball with for a long time.
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Great basketball players, and they had a chance one time to go to the finals and win,
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and they didn't, and they thought they were going to go back, and many times they never,
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ever went to the finals ever again, and they never got a chip, and the name of the game
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I sat there, and I'm listening to Kenny, saying, wow, pretty powerful statement.
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Not the most optimistic statement you want to hear, but guess what happened?
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They never went to the championship ever again, and they could have that series.
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We could today be saying that the Pacers were a one-time champion during that time, and LeBron
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would have only had two rings instead of his three, but what happened?
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You know, these weird times that we're living in with the coronavirus and the pandemic, these
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There's going to be a very small community of people, I guarantee you, that are sitting
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around saying, I don't know why I'm optimistic about something good happening for me around
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Everybody's telling me it's the end of the world.
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Apocalypse, Armageddon, whatever you want to call it.
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All these videos going viral, imposing so much fear.
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I think everything's going to be all right, okay?
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That small community, post-pandemic, a crazy opportunity is going to present itself to
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But it's also going to be a majority of people in the world who, during these times, are going
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They're probably going to put on 5% to 10% of their body weight, gaining 5, 10, 15,
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20 pounds of weight, just get a little bit more casual with their energy, and that opportunity
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is also going to present itself to those people, but they're not going to be ready for it.
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My challenge to you is, don't take these times lightly and get caught and glued to the TV
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watching every other news as if you have any major influence to be able to slow this thing
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down, unless if you're somebody that's directly working with pharma or directly working with
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And unless if you're somebody involved with helping come up with a cure, keep at it.
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But if you're not, this is a very good time to recreate yourself.
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So when that great opportunity presents itself, you capitalize.
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