#61: The 1% Mentality with David Nurse
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show Jayson is talking with David Nurse, NBA life and optimization coach, and author of Pivot & Go: The 29-Day Blueprint to Redefine and Achieve Your Success. David grew up knowing he would be in the NBA someday, he was talented enough and had the height to match, but after getting cut from a team overseas his hopes started to fade.
He knew he couldn’t give up his dreams that easily, and learned from his mistakes and his failures, becoming a shooting coach for any program that would take him around the country, no matter how small. He eventually found his place as the shooting coach for the Brooklyn Nets. After getting let go from that job, he started coaching players how to use their self confidence and talents most effectively.
David believes that to succeed in life you need to have the 1% mentality, get 1% better every single day. Gaining momentum is an incredibly powerful tool that allows you to achieve your goals! David sets macro goals and works backwards to discover the process to get there and focuses on every step of the process.
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Mentioned in the Episode:
David’s Website: http://davidnurse.com/
David’s Book, Pivot & Go: The 29-Day Blueprint to Redefine and Achieve Your Success: http://davidnurse.com/book/
David’s Podcast, The Pivot & Go Podcast: http://davidnurse.com/podcasts-blogs/
Timestamps:
2:22 - David Growing Up
5:18 - Pivot Mindset
8:03 - Brooklyn Nets Shooting Coach
11:50 - 1% Mentality
15:46 - Pivot Terms
19:27 - Making a Difference in Someone's Life
21:58 - Overcoming Challenges
27:14 - How Important Is It to Prepare?
29:55 - Top 3 NBA Teams of All Time
32:25 - Best 5 Players of All Time
36:37 - Finding David Online
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
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| 0:15.1 | Damn, bam, damn, true underdog. |
| 0:18.2 | Damn, they unleash the power with him. Bam, bam, damn. Build it to give you, baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him. |
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| 0:22.6 | Jason Waller here, True underdog podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | What's up, Underdogs? |
| 0:30.9 | Today, I'm talking to an NBA life development coach legend, David Nurse. |
| 0:36.2 | David's coached more than 150 NBA players as well as |
| 0:39.7 | several Fortune 500 CEOs. He also spread his message of motivation and positivity over 50 |
| 0:46.1 | countries spoken to Fortune 500 companies like Nestle, State Farm, Nike, and Vivint, who's actually |
| 0:52.0 | a competitor of mine. We'll talk about that later. David's the author |
| 0:55.2 | of Pivot and Go and the host of Pivot and Go podcast. I can't wait for you guys to hear his story. |
| 1:00.9 | He's played basketball professionally, internationally, and he actually coached the New York |
| 1:05.3 | or Brooklyn Nets. How are you doing, David? Jason, I appreciate you having me on, man. First off, |
| 1:10.8 | I love the title of your podcast, the underdog. Like, that's what we are. We're all living that underdog story constantly. That's honestly, that's what makes it fun. But thank you for the great agent pitch setup. Appreciate it, man. Wasn't that great? I said you up, I got to ask before we get started, Vivint? Vivit's my competitor. |
| 1:28.3 | Did you do Todd, like, did you meet with Todd and then go out there and do everything? Or how did that go? So it was actually after the COVID time it hit. So it was a Zoom one. My friends there are J.P. Rly. You know, JP? Okay. Yeah. I don't. I don't. |
| 1:24.1 | So, yeah, I've known them through the, |
| 1:25.7 | I kind of got to know them through the Utah Jazz. |
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