Dr. Myron Rolle | The 2% Way - How Small Improvements Create Big Results

The Jon Gordon Podcast

Jon Gordon

Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jon Gordon is joined by Dr. Myron Rolle. Dr. Rolle was a standout football player at Florida State University, and was drafted by the Tenneesee Titans in 2010. Not only is Dr. Rolle a star athlete, he is also a recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, giving him the opportunity to study at Oxford University before being drafted. Now Dr. Rolle is a neurosurgeon at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Over the course of the episode Jon and Myron discuss topics ranging from transitioning from football to the medical field, dealing with racial discrimination, and the faith that drives Dr. Rolle every day in all aspects of his life.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Dr. Myron Roll.
0:14.3	How you doing?
0:15.3	I'm doing very well.
0:16.3	How are you?
0:17.3	Doing great.
0:18.3	Great to have you on board.
0:19.3	You know, I follow your career for a while.
0:21.8	I watched you play college football.
0:24.2	I knew that you were a Rhodes scholar.
0:26.4	I remember following you then.
0:28.2	And then I remember you went into the medical field.
0:31.1	So can you talk about like that journey in terms of making that transition, one from sports
0:37.0	to the medical world, what made you want to do that, and then we can explore deeper into
0:41.8	that.
0:42.8	But I just thought it was so fascinating watching you back then, becoming a Rhodes scholar
0:46.8	and all that entailed.
0:47.8	So talk about that journey.
0:48.8	You know, I started my parents.
0:50.8	You know, my parents, Beverly Whitney, they are phenomenal.
0:54.3	They took us from the Bahamas when I was very young.
0:57.0	I was around two years old and I grew up in New Jersey, in America.
1:01.3	And then once we got to the United States, they stressed the importance of education and
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