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Welcome back to the conversation this week and next coming weeks we're answering the questions that you the Thrive Nation are emailing us and many of you have emailed the question, why is Clay Clark obsessed with the New England Patriots. So I want to make sure you get this. I am probably a sports fan for a very different reason than the average

person I would think, but I'm going to get into it. One, if Bill Belichek tomorrow signed to be the head coach of the Cowboys, I would immediately become a cowboy fan. I do not care about the Patriots. I do not like football. I do not like anything other than Bill Belichek. What if he what if he started coaching like curling. I wouldn't get into it because the the I here's why I like the football professional football and why I think it's so similar to professional business is that in the NFL, Dr. Z. You know this, but if you have

a great season, if you win the most games, you win the Super Bowl. Yes. And the next season to create parity to make it more competitive. Your seat your your season, the next year is the hardest, correct. And you get the last draft pick in each of the rounds. Right. So now you have the worst draft picks and you have the toughest schedule, correct, which usually causes a team to be good for about two years and then terrible and then good and terrible. There's a cycle of like two to three years of good and then we have bad good bad. And so for, you know, 18 years, the Patriots have been consecutively winning. There have been a

team that wins and wins and wins and wins and wins and Brady's been out. Brady's been in. It doesn't really matter who the quarterback is. It doesn't matter who's running the ball. It doesn't matter who's catching the ball. It doesn't matter what players are playing. So the two constants have been winning and player turnover. Every single year, there's new faces, new players, and they just win. And so Bill, Bill, it's Bill Belichek has 16 management principles probably more, but 16 that I have noted and documented, spending a copious amount of my time researching Bill Belichek probably probably too much.

I mean, is it, you know, would you stalk him? I honestly, I want to watch football. I tell him that I look at it is like I'm reading a management book because I watch how he does it. And that's all I care about. I don't care about football at all. I really don't. I just, I like. So again, if I, if he was the coach tomorrow of any team that you like, I would be, you'd be my guy. Yeah, but if you flew up to Boston, and they said, Hey, Coach Belichek is eating dinner at this restaurant XYZ tonight. Would you go there? I would like to. Yeah. I mean, Bill Belichek, just to understand. In 1975, after graduating from Wesleyan University,

he decided I want to be a coach. And they're like, yeah, sure you do. You never played in the NFL, which is a prerequisite to being ahead of head coach. There's no coaches out there. They haven't played in the NFL. In some capacity.

So he says, here's the deal. I'll work for the least amount you can pay me. So the least they could pay him in 1975 was he got a job coaching for the Baltimore Colts for $25 a week, which in today's money would be $176 a week. And he did this for two years.

And then he went to the Broncos. And then he went to the lions. And then finally got a chance to coach for the New York Giants for nothing. I mean, just cheap, cheap money.

And he ended up being known as the most well prepared and the hardest working coach in the NFL. He was the defensive coordinator and they won two championships. He got a job as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

And then they reefed the ownership refused to back his difficult management standards. And so he was fired. He took over for the Patriots. And here we go.

So I'm going to teach you the next principle, principle number seven, play smart and hard. I'm going to reach the notable coitable Z. And I'd like for you to break it down for us. He says, you can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120%.

But if one guy is out of position, then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

On the sidelines, if you watch an FL Mike with Bill Bellachek, you can see it. You can just YouTube, but you can watch it. He obsesses about the execution of receivers, setting blocks, running backs, executing fakes, linemen, right technique, Z as a business owner.

And why do you obsess on these details? I mean, how do the details make the auto auction happen? Because everyone has an idea of an auction, but how does your, how do the details make your auto auction successful?

In every aspect of life, if you follow that, you're going to do well. And the same is true with the business. I mean, if you think about it, you know, I know people that have great ideas.

They have a great product. They're in their brain, a great service. I mean, something that they could really, really sell. I mean, people want it, right? People are going to get their hard earned money for that thing, right?

They're smart. They're smarter here, right? But yet they don't follow through with anything. They don't follow the pathway we lay out for them. They don't even maybe even know there is a pathway to follow.

So they're not, they're not doing, they're not giving the commitment to hard. They're not doing the hard things that they need to do.

So I'm going to give the notable quoteable one more time. And I want to, I want to tee this up for Z because this is such a perfect example.

Bill Balecek says, you can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120%.

But if one guy is at a position, then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards. I've seen him. I've seen him on the sidelines where his team just scored a touchdown, lose his mind on the other receiver who didn't run out his route, right?

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