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Hey, everyone, it's Ryan. You know, I was it seems like forever ago, but almost exactly a year ago, I flew to Cleveland, Ohio, and I had the great honor of giving a talk to the Cleveland Browns.

It was not the first time I'd been inside an NFL training camp, but the first time I was addressing a team directly as you can imagine, it was pretty intimidating.

The coaches had heard me when I gave a talk at Alabama a few years earlier, but you know, it was it was quite an experience. I remember I asked my friend John Gordon for some advice, and he said,

John Gordon spoke into all sorts of sports teams. He's a great author. He should check out his stuff. But anyways, John said, look, he's like, they're not going to laugh.

It's going to be a tough audience is like, but if you can give them one thing that they remember, it will be worth it. And he's like, that's why they're bringing you anyway, one thing, which ironically is sort of Seneca's advice, right?

Seneca's point was just look for one thing every day that adds up. And so I think the reason coaches and organizations have authors in or motivational speakers or experts come in is that if they give one of these players who they're paying hundreds of millions of dollars to one piece of advice that helps them in one play in one game, it's worth all the money in the world to them. And so that was my job.

And I got up there. I gave sort of five lessons from engine philosophy five sort of really practical things that I thought these guys could apply in high pressure situations and apply in life as well. And so we're going to play that for you today, because I think all of us, although we don't play sports and in some ways I'm jealous of the sort of win lossness of professional sports, right?

That it's like binary you win or you lose, you know, you win a Super Bowl. You don't win a Super Bowl. You know, the rest of the world like there's no Super Bowl for books, right? And there's no Super Bowl for sales and there's no NFC East for your profession or my profession. So we we live in a slightly more ambiguous world than these athletes, but at the same time, what we what we share with them is the limitations, right?

As I talk to the players about this idea of all you control is how you play you control how you play. That's it. And so that's what I wanted to focus on, you know, the Cleveland Browns last year were a team that there was a ton of expectations for it. There was a lot of distractions. There was the temptation of a lot of ego.

Ironically, these are these are things I talked about in my talk and then the team sort of went on to struggle with that year. And I've seen Baker Mayfield give some give some interviews. He's sort of not going to pay attention to social media this year.

Something I talked about he's going to you know, he's going to let his game do the talking. Something I talked about. But look, when when sometimes the teacher in the student don't align and it can take a while for a message to sink in.

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