76 Chopping Carrots - Identifying Talent, Creating Value and Paving a Path to Excellence
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
How you chop carrots is how you live your life.
What does this mean, exactly?
Well, how people do seemingly simple tasks will seep into everything they do and, as a coach or a leader, you can spot talent or value by observing the basic habits and behaviors of your athletes or employees.
In this episode, Matt explores:
- The concept of talent
- How you as a coach or manager can identify talent
- Paving a path to excellence with intentional focus
How you chop carrots is how you live your life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.5 | How you chop carrots is how you live life. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | This is Matt Dixon, your host as ever. |
| 0:32.0 | And I have to admit, I cannot remember where I read that quote. |
| 0:36.5 | But in all honesty, I think it came to me via Kelly, |
| 0:39.6 | my wife and partner in crime at Purple Patch. But no matter, it resonated. I'd love to hear from you |
| 0:45.4 | if you know where I may have read that before. But the key component is that we are creatures of habit. |
| 0:53.5 | And while we have different passions and strengths, we will always lean to things that we are creatures of habit. And while we have different passions and strengths, |
| 0:56.6 | we will always lean to things that we love and that we're good at. And the truth is that we can |
| 1:02.6 | identify behavior patterns, values, attention to detail, follow through, and so much so, |
| 1:09.6 | just by monitoring the way that people do seemingly simple tasks |
| 1:13.8 | and as a coach or as a leader you can actually spot talent or value from someone who let's say |
| 1:21.9 | might chop carrots and as a performer your habits and approaches to seemingly mundane things seep into everything |
| 1:31.0 | that brings you the final product. |
| 1:34.3 | How you chop carrots, you live your life. |
| 1:38.1 | Today, we're going to explore value, talent and habits that lead to excellence. We're going to go into the bedrooms of our |
| 1:47.1 | pro squad. We're going to lick the grease of the chain of our amateur athletes. We're going to |
| 1:51.8 | create a framework of why simple tasks add up to a journey of excellence and also how to spot |
| 1:58.8 | those who thrive at these seemingly mundane tasks. |
| 2:02.7 | Because you can be sure that those people that thrive at the mundane tasks are going to be |
| 2:07.8 | the ones that are your most valuable athlete or workers. It's a meaty one this week. I guess that's |
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