Forrest Griffin, UFC Hall of Famer on Maximizing Your Potential

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Season 2 of Office Hours launches this Friday! Office Hours features billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes and entertainers to talk about success, failure, and everything in between. Season 2 features appearances from Daymond John from Shark Tank, entrepreneur and best-selling author Ed Mylett, US Olympic beach volleyball legend Kerri Walsh Jennings, chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck, New York Times best-selling author, researcher, lecturer, and corporate consultant Dr Joe Dispenza, "The Iceman" Wim Hof, and Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Capital, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author of The 10X Rule. Stream Office Hours Right Now! www.davidmeltzer.tv On today's episode, Forrest Griffin, Vice President of Athlete Development for the UFC and former UFC light heavyweight champion, shares his insights on how to treat a difficult conversation just like a grappling match and what stops athletes from maximizing their talents when it matters most. Griffin and host of #OfficeHours, David Meltzer, chat about a range of topics including the role that intelligence plays in MMA, the origins of Forrest’s tendency to “tell it like it is”, and why vulnerability is so endearing for public figures. Griffin also talks about why he’s grateful for the challenges he faced on the way to becoming a champion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everyone, I wanted to jump on here to remind you all of season two of office hours.
0:05.4	It launches this Friday, June 17th on Apple TV.
0:09.4	We've got the biggest celebrities, athletes, entertainers, and the world thought leaders on this season.
0:14.4	And I can't wait for all of you to start watching this Friday each week.
0:18.9	I'm going to share some of my favorite conversations from this upcoming season.
0:23.7	So today, you're going to get an early preview of one of the best conversations we had during season two.
0:29.2	Today's episode is our conversation with UFC Hall of Famer, Forest Griffin.
0:34.8	And he shared what his pre-fight speech was.
0:38.6	So make sure you give this a listen and don't forget to start streaming season two of office hours this Friday.
0:47.2	This is the flavor.
0:48.8	Welcome back to office hours.
0:50.6	We got another champion here, another friend of mine, by the way, and I'm so blessed to have him as a friend.
0:56.0	I call him the humble warrior, and I'll tell you why Forest Griffin, of course, UFC, Light Heavyweight Champion,
1:01.4	known for the greatest fight that created the UFC.
1:04.6	If without that fight with Bonar, I'm not sure we'd be here today, or those huge facilities over there would be here.
1:10.1	Dana White still should be thanking you.
1:12.4	But for us, what I've learned, I think you'd thanks me with the job, and then tell them for more money.
1:18.6	Yeah, I'll tell you about that.
1:20.2	Thanks a great, but pay me more.
1:22.3	And what's interesting though, when we met, and since I've become friends with you, very few people have the humility to illuminate the truth, right?
1:32.5	And you just, no matter where and what we're talking about, and the questions that are asked of you, you have this ability to, you know, pull and extract out any fluff or bullshit, and you just simply say,
1:44.2	well, this is what it is, and you have this ability to tell the truth and illuminate the truth without any fluff and with complete humility, whether it's embarrassing or not embarrassing.
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