How to defeat ego.
In this episode I talk about how high profile athletes from Lance Armstrong to Tiger Woods have let ego undermine their true potential and what cautionary tales we can learn.
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How to defeat ego.
In this episode I talk about how high profile athletes from Lance Armstrong to Tiger Woods have let ego undermine their true potential and what cautionary tales we can learn.
“It's impossible to learn that which you think you already know.”
“Accept success without arrogance and let failure go with indifference.”
“He went down to the library, got himself a dictionary from the library and a blank notebook. And he went on and he transcribed the dictionary. Word for word, he transcribed the dictionary. And he learned a bunch of new words he never knew. Malcolm Little emerged from prison after 10 years to the name you might better know him as Malcolm X.”
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