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1 " Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by. "
― , On Character and Mental Toughness
2 " I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found. "
3 " Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way. "
4 " When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way. "
5 " The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing "
6 " In my conversations and reading I often find humility seems to be a source of generational conflict. One of the difficulties older generations encounter when dealing with younger generations is the latter’s apparent lack of humility. The young have come of age in an era where it was common for their parents to not allow them to make mistakes, self-inflicted or otherwise. Because this group has never been allowed to fail, they have seldom been humbled. Failure can be the most important catalyst of humility. The helicopter parent has sacrificed the invaluable lifelong lessons of humility at the altar of building unendurable self esteem. When real life hits such poor children the results are often a stubborn inability to recognize they have failed and stunning lack of means to deal with their failure. The first time they are humbled can be traumatic. Sometimes this results in drama between the triad of parent, player and coach with the coach expecting player humility, while the player and parent expect automatic success. In these situations it is important to eliminate anger and frustration and try to resolve the conflict. Unfortunately, and ironically, a lack of humility by any or all of these parties can get in the way of such resolution. "
7 " A person or team which is not humble cannot get better. This is because they think they already have everything mastered. They think they already have done enough to succeed. They think they already know all of the answers. Once someone has had some success, be it large or small, they frequently get satisfied, even a little lazy. They think the way they worked yesterday was good enough, so they struggle to work hard today. As a result, they stay still as the humble advance. "