So I had recently had the opportunity to watch a couple different documentaries on some

like excellent athletes.

There's the last dance documentary, right, about Michael Jordan in the bulls.

But there's also one I saw.

I don't know, gosh, I don't know how many years ago, many of them like two years ago.

It was on a bunch of like excellent, incredible athletes.

Wayne Gretzky was one of them.

And I'm not a super big basketball fan, not big, super hockey fan.

But just the excellence thing is the thing that just like so fascinates me.

Like you have Jordan, you have Gretzky and these people who were above and beyond virtually

everybody else who was competing in those sports.

And it brings the question like, what is it that makes a person that great?

What makes a person that excellent?

And it could just be talent, it could be hard work.

It could be a lot of things.

But there's a writer I just came across recently and he has said that he said, what often

looks like a talent gap.

When we look at those people who are incredibly excellent, he says what often looks like a talent

gap is often a focus gap.

He says you can take an average or what makes an average or above average athlete or performer

incredible is that they're able to eliminate distractions.

And so he said the talent actually is staying focused.

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