Hey everybody Dean Graziosu, welcome to the Weekly Wisdom.

It's an honor and a pleasure to have you here.

You know what I want to talk about right now is something I just wrote in the last chapter of my book.

I'm giving you a little tease of what I'm working on right now and I'm almost done.

It's this hands down best book I ever written, but we'll get to that in time.

It's not going to be out for a little while now.

But I wrote a section called Gifted versus Grit.

And I think we have the biggest delusion possible

in today's world where we think when we see someone successful, successful at sports,

successful at piano, you know, a child prodigy, dancing, millionaire, love, whatever it takes,

we think they were gifted with something special.

And yes, is somebody seven foot tall and can play basketball gifted?

Sure, they got some assets.

But if you look and dig and look behind the curtain of every successful person I know it was

grit that got him there you know when Michael Jordan was the best basketball

player of all time you know was he gifted sure but he got cut from high school basketball

but when you look behind the curtain no one shot more foul shots than that guy

thousands and thousands of foul shots and they said when he he would say that when you know I was less lucky enough to have

Dinner with Michael Jordan he said when in when is sleep he used to just imagine shooting foul shots that guy was in the gym when everybody else left.

You look at Peyton Manning, what an amazing career.

What a way to go out, right?

And just an incredible dude.

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