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Sports Motivation Podcast

BARS: Lebron James and the power of self-awareness

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Sports, Business

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

It's nice to have vision, but it's equally important to have self awareness and pay close attention to reality. In this episode, Lebron James shares his philosophy through an interview from 2008, and reveals his secret weapon: self-awareness. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast.

0:04.0

It is your host, Nees Showbo.

0:05.7

Today is another episode of bars where I break down something powerful, either from a song,

0:11.4

either from an interview, from a book.

0:14.2

And today is from a living legend.

0:16.6

All right?

0:17.3

Now, sometimes it takes a while for us to really understand and appreciate what we're watching.

0:24.5

LeBron James is someone who has had an incredible amount of pressure from. I don't know if you guys remember this.

0:30.1

So, LeBron James and I are about the same age. So I remember being in high school and hearing about LeBron James and hearing him when he was a junior in high school

0:39.2

being touted as literally like the king, the next Michael Jordan, right? Imagine being in high school

0:46.9

having all these expectations, not only that, knowing that a lot of other players before you

0:51.1

have gotten titles like that and never panned out.

0:56.5

A lot of pressure.

0:59.0

And what did LeBron James do?

1:01.6

He met and exceeded all expectations.

1:04.1

This is a living legend.

1:07.7

This is a player who, when he's gone, we are going to be sad.

1:11.8

And if we're not sad at the time, we'll be sad later when we realize the impact that a player like LeBron James has had. And LeBron James, just like any dominant athlete,

1:18.8

has a mindset that leads to everything that they do. They have a philosophy. And it's up to us

1:26.6

to listen, scour, study, understand what those

1:36.8

philosophies are, and of course, apply that to our own lives, our own careers, our own sports.

1:43.2

And these are not innovative philosophies. These are not

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