43: George Raveling | Coaching to Win the Championship of Life
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Coach George Raveling (@GeorgeRaveling) is a pioneer in transcending the intersections of sports, culture, race, and business. He is also the author of War On The Boards: A Rebounding Manual.
What We Discuss with George Raveling:- George's process for planning every day with intentionality and strategy.
- Why, even at age 80, George reinvents himself every five years.
- The best place to start with disruption.
- What sets apart great athletes and other high performers from the rest of the crowd.
- George's three fundamental responsibilities: to coach attitude, behavior, and performance.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | When I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is sit on the side of the bed and I give myself |
| 0:06.0 | these two choices and easy only two choices that I've had and I've been doing this for 40 years |
| 0:13.2 | and the two choices are you can either be happy or you can be very happy and so you got to select |
| 0:20.0 | one or those two but that's it there's no other choice. Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger |
| 0:26.8 | and as always I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo. On this episode we're talking with my friend |
| 0:31.6 | George Ravling. This guy, one of the most well-known and beloved figures in the sports world, |
| 0:36.4 | former basketball coach, former Nike global basketball sports marketing director but that does |
| 0:41.6 | not do him justice. George is inspiring, he's interesting, he's just everything about him just |
| 0:48.4 | makes you want to be a better person. He's the first African-American basketball coach in the |
| 0:52.3 | pack eight now the pack 12. He traveled a six out of seven continents, he's referenced by many as |
| 0:57.6 | the human Google which doesn't surprise me because I think it reads at least four books a month, |
| 1:01.2 | he's given away thousands of books, he showed up to the studio with books, he spoke before Congress, |
| 1:06.5 | oh no, did I mention he's 80 and still going after it as hard as ever, I find George like I said so |
| 1:12.9 | so inspiring, he's really living his mission. George plans every day with intentionality and strategy. |
| 1:17.9 | We're going to go through his process for this and why it's been so pivotal in his life. |
| 1:21.6 | We'll also learn why he reinvents himself every five years. I've never met anyone at his age |
| 1:27.3 | especially who is so good at staying relevant. George has some amazing wisdom and stories that are |
| 1:32.7 | just going to blow you away so don't judge this book by the cover if you think you're not in this |
| 1:36.5 | sport so you don't really it's not going to be like that. Trust me without further ado here's |
| 1:42.0 | my good friend coach George Ravelin. I'm curious I asked why if you were left-handed because you have |
| 1:48.1 | your watch on your right wrist like I do but I do it because I'm left-handed but you say oh it's |
| 1:53.9 | one of many contrary and things that I do so what's going on there? Well when I was a college student |
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