#015: Redefining Adversity
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Talking about why a busted ACL can be a good thing, what Brent Fikowski, Tom Brady, & Katrin Davidsdottir have in common, & why you should focus less on what happens & more on how you respond to what happens.
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| 0:00.0 | Tom Brady is the greatest football player greatest quarterback anyway |
| 0:05.5 | because he was picked in the last round of the draft. That's the reason it lit such a fire |
| 0:11.5 | under him that because he was, here's the story that I don't think unless you're |
| 0:16.7 | doing a Patriot fan, you probably don't know. He had such a fire. He was so mad at that that he had |
| 0:23.2 | such something to prove. On day one of training camp, Robert Kraft came up, he walked up |
| 0:30.0 | right to him as this kind of nobody. This is getting a kid, you know, 22-year-olds |
| 0:34.8 | right out college goes up to Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots and says, |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, Mr. Kraft, I'm Tom Brady. And he says, I know who you are, Tom. You're our sixth round |
| 0:43.5 | draft pick. And he says, Tom's response was, that's right. And I'm the best decision this organization |
| 0:48.4 | has ever made. What confidence in it has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard. What confidence |
| 0:55.5 | is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough. Okay, Ben, I came in here today thinking we |
| 1:08.1 | were going to talk about one thing. And as I was setting up, I said something sort of casually |
| 1:13.6 | and your response surprised me enough that it felt like we should talk about that instead. |
| 1:18.8 | So the thing that I said, and I'll let you sort of give the context, but on Heather, your wife's |
| 1:25.1 | blog yesterday, the day before, sure, a quick post about how Maya, your daughter, Tor, ACL recently, |
| 1:32.0 | over the weekend. Well, you guys were at regionals. And my comment was simply, as you said, something |
| 1:37.6 | that you've probably heard 10 times now, which is, sucks about Maya. And so why don't you give me what |
| 1:43.1 | your response was to that. And then we can sort of walk our way through the sort of the wise behind |
| 1:48.4 | that. Yeah, so my response was we should talk about this. It doesn't talk about Maya. So here's |
| 1:53.1 | the little quick backstory. We are regionals in Albany. The East regionals this past weekend, while I |
| 1:57.6 | was there, chance to have the the the tournament that we're not at as parents, it seems to always be |
| 2:03.3 | the case. Maya playing lacrosse at a tournament at Harvard University, tore her tore her ACL. |
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