Episode 32: Eric Wood—Pro Bowl Center

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For nearly twenty years, the Buffalo Bills didn't make the playoffs. At the time, it was the longest active playoff drought in North American sports. But Eric Wood, the Bill's Pro Bowl Center, had his sights set on seeing that drought come to an end. Stories from his nine seasons in the NFL, working back from multiple debilitating injuries, and the power of being a late-bloomer dominate this honest and motivating conversation.

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0:00.0	In the long run, passivity won't pay off.
0:08.6	It never pays off.
0:11.1	If you want a life of meaning and transcendence, you're going to have to move.
0:17.5	Aggression doesn't have to be toxic or damaging.
0:20.7	Healthy aggression risks.
0:22.4	It builds new things.
0:23.6	It breaks through barriers.
0:25.1	It's the key to living a life that matters.
0:28.5	I'm Brian Tom.
0:29.5	This is the aggressive life.
0:32.1	Thank you. Do you know what bothers me?
0:45.3	The thing I'm thinking right now, what really bothers me is when someone believes
0:49.4	they're gifted.
0:51.1	Oh, he's gifted.
0:53.4	Oh, I'm gifted. Oh, they're special. As if some people just have an
1:01.6	intrinsically easier time of succeeding. And some people do. There are many, many studies out
1:10.5	that show that if you are good looking,
1:12.6	you're going to get the nod and an interview over somebody who's just as qualified, but
1:15.6	it isn't as good looking. And most of us are good looking or not good looking based on some
1:19.6	genetic factors. So there's something there. But we take it too far when we start to believe,
1:25.1	well, I haven't amounted to anything in my life thus far, so therefore
1:29.3	I'm not going to amount to anything in the future. I do not think that just because you're
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