#155: How to Play a Poor Hand Well w/ Thomas Bryant
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We can all get dealt a poor hand from time to time, but how you respond and choose to play it will either elevate you or devastate you. In this episode, Dave is joined by NBA center Thomas Bryant of the Washington Wizards, who describes his journey from being selected and released by the Los Angeles Lakers within a year, to moving on and setting records with the Washington Wizards! Applicable lessons for taking the things that appear to happen "to" you and using them to happen "for" you!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about playing |
| 0:33.6 | a poor hand well. Playing a poor hand well. |
| 0:38.5 | You know, so often you don't get a great hand. |
| 0:40.7 | And you can whine about it, pout about it, blame someone for it, |
| 0:43.6 | or you can learn to play that hand well. |
| 0:47.3 | And if you've read my book Unstoppable, you know, |
| 0:49.0 | we talk about four types of performers, undertakers, caretakers, |
| 0:52.0 | playmakers, and game changers. |
| 0:53.9 | And we say that the game |
| 0:54.8 | changer more consistently brings eight key traits to the table. They bring more effort, energy, |
| 0:59.7 | enthusiasm, excellence, passion, attitude, focus, and integrity. And because of that integrity part, |
| 1:05.9 | I really want to focus on that and the attitude part when they're dealt a poor hand they tend to make better decisions |
| 1:12.0 | with it so I have a guest hey isn't it great when we have guests in the studio you know we |
| 1:16.5 | don't have a lot of guests on the show because I don't do them remotely I I've only and I |
| 1:21.9 | may someday but I only do them when the guest is actually live here in the studio and we have that energy. |
| 1:29.0 | And I just, I think it, I think there's a different dynamic when that happens. |
| 1:33.0 | And so we're going to visit with my guest. |
| 1:35.2 | We're going to visit with my friend. |
| 1:36.3 | He's also my friend. |
| 1:37.0 | We've known each other, I think since the end of 2015. |
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