Alex Rodriguez: How mentorship provides an edge
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Even all-star athletes are coached. So why not you? Alex Rodriguez, former professional baseball player, leaned into outside advice at the most challenging moments in his career – and in building his enormously successful business, A-Rod Corp. Rodriguez shares what he's learned from mentors like investing guru Warren Buffett and NBA icon Magic Johnson, and how mentorship can help sharpen your skills and open up opportunities. We spoke with A-Rod twice this year, including in a live Strategy Session that we released as an episode previously. Here, we dive deep into Alex's story, to explore how great mentors can be a driving force on your journey to scale – and how the best way to find great mentors is to always be learning and to have the mindset of a mentor yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. I had a big screw up. I served the longest |
| 0:37.8 | suspension in Major League Baseball history. It was the toughest year of my life. |
| 0:45.0 | And I literally sat in massive depression for a really long time. |
| 0:57.0 | It was a full year and I really needed the full year to get my S in order right? |
| 1:07.0 | That's Alex Rodriguez known to millions of sports fans as Arod. That big screw-up he's |
| 1:13.0 | millions of sports fans as A-Rod. |
| 1:15.0 | That big screw-up he's talking about |
| 1:18.0 | sent shock waves through Major League Baseball |
| 1:20.0 | and made A-Rod reassess his priorities. |
| 1:22.8 | A lot of it came from turning the lens inward and really doing work in myself. |
| 1:30.8 | Understanding why I was making these mistakes, and I wanted to get to the core of |
| 1:36.6 | them and correct them. |
| 1:40.1 | There was a major difference between Alex or A-Rod pre-suspension and post-suspension. |
| 1:50.0 | And pre-suspension, I thought that winning was being like a gladiator. |
| 1:55.0 | And hitting home runs, |
| 2:00.0 | and big contracts and being macho and muscles. |
| 2:09.8 | And I realized I was wrong. |
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