692 | Jim Valvano: “Every Single Day, in Every Walk of Life, Ordinary People do Extraordinary Things.”

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Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

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🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s a special Motivation Monday throwback episode with the late coach Jim Valvano. In today’s clip, Coach Valvano shares the philosophy he learned and adopted when he was 16 years old that made him and his team champions, and reminds us that every one is capable of going from ordinary to extraordinary.

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QOTS, every single day in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary
0:08.7	things.
0:09.7	Here we go.
0:30.0	Welcome back to the quarter of the day show.
0:38.0	I'm your host, Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and dot com.
0:41.2	We've got the late, the great North Carolina State Championship basketball coach Jim
0:46.7	Valvano on the show today.
0:48.4	This was actually supposed to be our throwback Thursday episode this week, but it's just
0:54.0	one of my favorite clips ever.
0:55.8	And I thought it would just be better to have it on motivation Monday because if this
1:00.4	one doesn't motivate you, if this one doesn't light you up, I really don't know what else
1:06.2	will.
1:07.2	Here's the coach.
1:08.2	Now I want to talk to you about how I do my job, how I do my job in a competitive
1:14.9	field, how each day I try to beat the North Carolina State and everybody else.
1:20.0	How am I going to do that?
1:21.0	I think everybody has to have a personal philosophy of how you live your life.
1:26.2	Here's mine, very simply put.
1:28.2	You plus motivation equals success.
1:30.9	I have that only thing in my locker room, nothing else in my locker room with that sign.
1:34.4	You plus motivation is success.
1:36.1	I have it on cards, bookmarks.
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