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Chasing Excellence

#044: Talent, Opportunities, & Effort

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health, Education, Mindset, Crossfit, Wellness, Self-improvement, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We're talking about whether Katrin, Fraser, & Tia are more talented than other athletes, the value of deliberate practice, & why I think it's important to first define what you would consider a success.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Excellence is or

0:03.9

Character even it it might might sound weird coming from me, but I believe it's compartmentalized

0:08.8

I believe because you are excellent in the workplace does not mean that you're an excellent father

0:12.9

Does not mean that you're an excellent friend does not mean that you're excellent in personal growth or that you're a person

0:17.1

Excellent. I believe that you might be excellent in the workplace

0:20.1

So let's you as you said as if you're an athlete. Let's take what the character skills

0:25.6

You think are necessary for a champion inside of your field and someone you listed some of them

0:30.6

So whether it's patience or it's grit or it's a growth mindset and start to

0:36.3

Figure out what those things look like and start to emulate emulate those

0:40.8

Inside of that particular endeavor

0:43.0

Now hopefully that I'll carry over to other areas, but it doesn't that's the place to start is really

0:48.6

Define really specifically define

0:51.3

What does it look like?

0:53.0

What do champions look like in my sport?

0:56.0

What confidence is has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard what confidence is is knowing that you giving your best efforts

1:06.6

Is enough

1:11.0

Well, hello, hey Patrick back for another one

1:15.6

Today we're going to talk about

1:18.1

Talent or the lack of or the myth of talent or what talent is and what is

1:22.9

And

1:25.1

Something that I think you touched on a good amount in the book

1:29.5

But I don't think it's something we've talked about too directly here

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