Elite Minds: Creating the Competitive Advantage

Their jobs don’t define them and they don’t need their job to validate them either.

You cannot lie to or fool yourself about how good you really think you are in relationship to your competition. If you don’t believe you deserve it, it probably will not happen.

Your expectation is the determinant—not your coach, your mom, or your teammates, but you. It’s true that you get what you settle for. Whether you think you are lucky or unlucky, you’re right!

“The only way one could fail the task was to give up. We design it so that no one can complete the task, but we don’t care that you can’t complete it. We need men who do not give up when faced with an impossible task.”

If you don’t expect to win, then you have disqualified yourself before the event even begins. You have handicapped yourself out of having a fair chance to win and given the field a head start and unfair advantage.

No matter how desperate your situation may be, there is always something you can do. You are never a victim; never without a choice. The more difficult the situation, the more challenging it is to recognize what options or choices one has. But remember, you always have a choice.

How you spend your time will dictate what you ultimately become.

They are not interested in beating you because their desire to win has absolutely nothing to do with you. It is simply their own desire to find out what they can be and do. Therefore, they have no strong emotional response to winning or losing. They realize that nothing is different about them whether they have won or lost. They either learned some

Imagine going to practice or work every day and knowing that the reason you are doing what you do is because you believe that you and your teammates are going to do something really special, something that history will remember for a long time. Your whole life is changed. There is purpose in everything you do. You matter and everyone else matters,