565 Novak Djokovic: Becoming #1 in the World and Overcoming the Odds

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

If you find your purpose, you're going to give purpose to others. - Novak Djokovic With everything going on in the world I think it's important now more than ever to spread hope, love, and inspiration. Today's guest is the very definition of all of those things. Novak Djokovic grew up during two wars in Serbia. As a child, he would be woken up at 2 am to alarms going off and be forced to head to a safe place. He saw the night's sky turn to light as he heard and felt the rumble of bombs being dropped around him. Through all of this Novak didn't turn to hate. Instead he turned to love and passion. He became the #1 tennis champion in the world.

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0:00.0	This is episode number five six five with one of the greatest tennis players of all time,
0:05.8	Novak Jokovic.
0:09.4	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's former pro athlete
0:14.8	turned lifestyle entrepreneur. In each week we bring you an inspiring person or message
0:20.4	to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
0:24.6	Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.
0:30.3	Joseph Campbell said we cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
0:41.7	I am so thrilled and excited for our guest today. And for those that don't know him,
0:47.2	his name is Novak Jokovic and he is a Serbian tennis player who is widely regarded as one of the
0:53.2	best tennis players of all time. He has won 12 Grand Slam titles and held the number one spot
1:00.3	in the ATP rankings for a total of 223 weeks. He became the third man to hold all four major titles
1:09.2	at once. He also won the bronze medal in men's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
1:15.4	He has been playing professionally since 2003 when he was 16 and had a 43 match winning streak at one
1:22.4	time. He is a member of the Champions for Peace Club, a group of famous elite athletes
1:28.8	committed to serving peace in the world through sport. And in 2015 he was appointed a UNICEF
1:35.2	Goodwill Ambassador. I am so pumped up guys because we go into the entire backstory of how Novak
1:43.1	became into tennis in the first place, how we got onto the tour, but it was so much more before
1:48.8	all this happened. Before he became number one, before he became one of the best in the world,
1:53.6	there was some things that he went through that I'm so glad that he opened up and shared about.
1:59.1	We cover why Novak chose not to stay stuck in a feeling of hatred and revenge after the Serbian
2:06.3	wars that he was living through. Also the story behind why he's so passionate about helping
2:12.0	refugees. When he knew he would become number one in the world and this story is fascinating to
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