George Raveling | Getting Better Every Day

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 11 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Jon Gordon interviews Coach George Raveling. Quoteables below.

George, in his 80's at the time of this recording, is a living legend. He is Nike’s former Director of International Basketball and the first African American head basketball coach in the PAC-8 (now PAC-12).

Coach Raveling has held head coaching jobs at Washington State, The University of Iowa, and USC. Following a prolific basketball coaching career, he joined Nike at the request of Phil Knight, where he played an integral role in signing a reluctant Michael Jordan. He’s also been inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as well as the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

During this conversation George shares his perspective on winning in sports, business and the game of life... as well as a fascinating story of how he came to possess the original copy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Connect with George on Twitter @GeorgeRaveling or at CoachGeorgeRaveling.com

A few quoteables from this interview:

Some people say "I don’t have time." No, all you have is time. It’s how you prioritize your time that matters.
The problem is… we get into WHO is right and WHO is wrong vs WHAT is right and WHAT is wrong.
Don’t be so focused on winning on the court that it blinds you from helping those you coach win off the court.
The minute you think you’ve won, you’ve lost. - Phil Knight
Every day I remind myself I am traveling on a path to BETTER.
I ask myself every day: "What did I do today to make myself a better person today than I was yesterday?”
I’ve always had this theory that, if you help enough people get what they want, you’ll always get what you want.
Information = Knowledge

Knowledge = Wisdom

Wisdom = Opportunity

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast, where John and his guest will share positive
0:07.4	inspiration, encouragement, and lessons to help you overcome your challenges and make a greater impact.
0:14.0	Our goal is that you know it, live it, and share it.
0:17.0	Let's begin.
0:20.0	Hey, I'm John Gordon with Positive University and today my guest is George
0:24.4	Ravling. George is a living legend. George, you're one of my heroes and I just
0:30.1	want people to get a good understanding of you in terms of who you are and the kind of lifelong
0:36.4	learning you are.
0:37.6	How old are you and how many books a year do you read, George? I'm 81 June 27th 1937 and I probably well I can easily get in a
0:52.4	hundred hundred probably well I can easily get in a hundred a hundred a hundred
0:55.0	a year on yeah
0:58.0	why are you still reading that I don't know if that's that's not that hard that's not that hard to do you think?
1:06.4	No I think it's just incredible that you have a strategy I think part of it John is having a reading strategy.
1:16.0	How does that flow? How does that work? That strategy?
1:19.0	Well, people say I don't have time. In my opinion, that's all you have is time. And it takes discipline. You set aside time to read every day. You look for unusual opportunities. I don't go anywhere without a book in a
1:34.0	note-pad. Even when I'm in the bookstore, a house after I'm in line to buy the
1:41.5	book I started, why I'm standing in line. I look for opportunities
1:46.0	to read when I get up in the morning, go to bed. Yesterday I had, there were nine people ahead
1:51.2	of me in the bank, so I started reading. I just think reading has to become
1:56.8	a priority in an individual's life, and then you have to create in my mind a reading strategy.
2:05.0	So I don't go by the old traditional ways we're taught to read.
2:11.0	For example, I don't read from front to back I I just skip around
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