1179 | Tim Grover: “Excellence is Lonely.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Behind every great success is a series of multiple ordeals and hindrances. And in this episode, Tim Grover illustrates to us the intricate and meandering path to success. Indeed, success is no accident but a product of hard work, dedication, and endless pursuit of excellence.
According to Tim, “Excellence is lonely. Your friends won’t get it, but your allies will.” Not everyone around you understands the price of success and that success entails sacrifice. In truth, sacrifice is not an option but a mandatory requirement for success.
Sacrifice may come in the form of physical or mental. But Tim teaches us not to be afraid because the things that require us to succeed are the very lonely stages physically and mentally. However, in the end, if you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want then ends up being the sacrifice.
Source: Tim Grover - Full Talk! Being Relentless
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QOD is... |
| 0:02.6 | Excellence is lonely. |
| 0:04.9 | Here we go. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome back to the Quart of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and the Sean Crox |
| 0:35.9 | and.com. We got Tim Grover on the show today. I think this is Tim Grover's debut appearance, |
| 0:42.9 | which is crazy because he's awesome. And he wrote a fantastic book called Relentless. |
| 0:48.6 | If you want a good book that's going to motivate the heck out of you, read Relentless by |
| 0:52.7 | Tim Grover. If you don't know who Tim is, he was the personal trainer of Michael Jordan. |
| 0:59.2 | He is the personal trainer of Duane Wade. He was Kobe Bryant's personal trainer. And |
| 1:05.6 | what he's going to share today is the reality. What's going to happen as you become more excellent? |
| 1:14.1 | As you become more excellent and as you become more successful, it is impossible to be everybody's |
| 1:18.0 | friend. And that is just the truth. You're going to have to let some friends go. If you |
| 1:23.7 | think about our relationships and we're in relationships, there's resonance there, which |
| 1:29.5 | means we're vibrating at the same or at a similar level. We see eye to eye. We have a similar |
| 1:35.1 | awareness. We have a similar way of thinking and being, right? But as you move up in your |
| 1:40.1 | awareness and your being and your success, what you're going to realize is that the pool |
| 1:43.8 | gets smaller. And that people and you don't resonate with other people and other people |
| 1:48.4 | don't resonate with you. And it can be very lonely. And it become a master of your craft. |
| 1:54.3 | You know, people, they want to be around people all the time, which is great. But to become |
| 1:57.4 | a master of your craft, you're going to have to sit down by yourself and master it. And |
| 2:01.7 | that could be a very lonely process. You know, sitting down for hours at a time by yourself, |
| 2:07.3 | doing the work, taking the courses, reading the book with nobody else there around you, |
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