#3421: Stillness Is A System: Dominance Via Emotional Containment

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

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4.9 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Stillness is a system. In this episode, I break down how to dominate through emotional containment and why real power comes from channeling your emotions, not hiding them or faking hype. A lot of people think being calm or stoic means you’re missing something, but I argue it’s actually a winning strategy. I’ll show you how to take any emotion you feel and turn that energy into productive action based on your standards, systems, and goals. Show Notes: [04:08]#1 Stillness is about control, not about silence. [09:34]#2 Stillness triggers discomfort in the weak. [17:16]#3 Stillness is not a mood or emotion, it is built in a way of being, it's a system. [19:14]Recap Episodes Mentioned: 2745: Your Mental & Emotional Immune Systems 2839: Why You WANT To Be Emotional 2853: The Emotional Challenge Of Success 1781: How To Emotionally "Detach" And Still Produce Results 560: You're In The Emotional Management Business 1294: How To Be The "Lion For A Day" Next Steps: --- 🎓 Work On Your Game University Get structured, get paid → WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com 📲 Get Dre’s #DailyMotivation Text → 305.384.6894 (or http://www.DreAllDay.com/text) 📧 Dre’s Daily Emails (Free) Clarity. Strategy. Execution. → WorkOnMyGame.com 🤖 Chat with DreGPT 🤖🔥 AI that thinks like Dre → DreAllDay.com/AI 📚 Claim Your Free Books The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com Sales Discipline System → SalesDisciplineBook.com Overseas Basketball Blueprint → BallOverseas.com How To Play As Well As You Practice → HoopHandbook.com/Free 🎧 Free Audiobooks The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com/audible Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible 💵 Support the Show CashApp → Cash.app/$DreBaldwin PayPal → https://www.paypal.biz/workonyourgame 📱 Connect with Dre Instagram → Instagram.com/DreBaldwin TikTok → TikTok.com/@WorkOnYourGame YouTube → YouTube.com/DreAllDay Twitter / X → X.com/DreAllDay Facebook → Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity 🎙 All Episodes + Archive → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:26.1	The person who feels pressure but does not flinch under that pressure always ends up holding the upper hand. day all day. Work on your game.
0:38.2	Work on your game.
0:39.2	Work on your game.
0:42.0	This is Drey Baldwin.
0:43.5	And work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance.
0:48.2	Today's topic is stillness is a system.
0:52.0	What we're talking about here today is how to dominate via emotional containment.
0:58.1	Now, I told you many times and many episodes of this show that you are in the emotional
1:04.3	management business. And we talked about emotion in a lot of different ways there. Episode 2853, the emotional
1:12.9	challenge of success. Episode number 2839, why you actually want to be emotional. Being emotional is not a
1:20.2	bad thing. It's not a negative thing depending on how you use it. Episode 2745, your mental and
1:25.4	emotional immune systems. Episode number 1781, how to emotionally
1:30.6	detach and still produce results. Also, episode number 560, you are in the emotional management
1:37.1	business. What that means is you have to learn how to channel emotions, not smother them and not
1:42.2	act like they don't exist or hide your emotions. Don't do that.
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