Diving into the life and greatness of Tiger Woods from James Patterson's book, Tiger, Tiger, and Jeff Benedict's book, Tiger Woods

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3:40 - Young Tiger

By eleven months old, when most kids are just learning to walk, Tiger Woods picked up a golf club crafted to his size and hit a golf ball perfectly into the net.

6:30 - Mom's advice

“In sport, you have to go for the throat. Because if all friendly, they come back and beat your ass. So kill them. Take their heart.”

9:25 - Father's influence

"The psychological training that my father used inured me to whatever I might have to deal with in golf. He taught me to be completely unaware of my surroundings, while maintaining complete focus on the task at hand."

11:30 - The goal at 15

"I want to be the Michael Jordan of golf. I’d like to be the best ever.”

12:10 - Work = Play

Practicing golf was never a chore or something Tiger felt obligated to do. He looked forward to being alone on the range or the course with his clubs.

15:35 - Golf was a drug

"I love this game to death. It’s like a drug I have to have."

20:50- Earn the right to be confident

Confidence stems from one thing, relentless work. If you’re lacking confidence, ask yourself if you’ve put in the work to have confidence

23:45- Pure obsession

By the spring of 1997, Tiger was consumed with practicing and working out. A typical practice day for him entailed hitting six hundred balls, working on his shirt game and putting, playing a round (Sometimes on his own), and working out in the gym for two or three hours

27:35- Relentless reinvention

“I was in it to find the answer to one question. How good can I be?

33:20 - What made Tiger great

1. Constant evolution and reinvention
2. Obsession to the craft
3. Self-belief
4. High capacity for pain

37:55- The Comeback
With every fiber in my body I’ve got to make you the best football player that I can make you. And I’ll try. And I’ll try. And if I don’t succeed on the first day. I’ll try again. And I’ll try again. And you’ve got to give everything that is in you.

42:15 - Lessons/Takeaways

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Diving into the stories behind the characteristic trait that helped Elon Musk build two of the biggest companies in the world, SpaceX and Tesla.

Check out Ashley Vance's book, Elon Musk, for more on the life and greatness on the man who is changing the world.

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Diving into the life and greatness of the legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi from David Maraniss' book: When Pride Still Mattered

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0:00 - Winning is an all the time thing

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

2:30 - Lesson from father

“No one’s ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.”


4:25 - Playing to coaching


5:50 - What's the thing that gives you a seven-day weekend?

7:00 - The core of Lombardi's coaching philosophy

“Repetition was at the core of his coaching philosophy. Doing the same thing over and over again, whether it was a play or calisthenics”

9:30- Attention to detail

Vince Lombardi spent eight hours at a coaching clinic talking about one play.

12:30- The cost of ambition


20:30 - New York to Green Bay

“When I am done. It will be on that map.”


21:40 - Being relentless

With every fiber in my body I’ve got to make you the best football player that I can make you. And I’ll try. And I’ll try. And if I don’t succeed on the first day. I’ll try again. And I’ll try again. And you’ve got to give everything that is in you.

23:10- What's your pain tolerance

29:25 - Excellence > Winning

The mistake championship teams often make is to try to repeat their winning formula. But that rarely works because by the time the next season starts, your opponents have studied all the videos and figured out how to counter every move you made. Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new. It’s about that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie when someone asks Indy what he’s going to do next, and he replies, “I don’t know, I’m making it up as we go along.” That’s how I view leadership. It’s an act of controlled improvisation.

30:30 - Some coaching philosophies

36:50 - Lessons and takeaways

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