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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Good athletes vs Elite Athletes? | One Good Question

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week’s question from our Discord:

dingleberrykumquat asked, “What separates a good athlete from an elite athlete? Is it genetics, luck, discipline, and/or resources?”

In other words, how does the nature vs nurture debate play out in athletes?

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen welcome to our Friday episode one good question where we answer your question.

0:13.4

If you want to get involved all you got to do is head to good company discord.com you get early

0:19.1

access to all our clothing drops discounts like-minded community and also a chance to be on the show.

0:25.3

Which wonderful Dingellberry, Cum-Qua!

0:29.3

But he spelled Cum-Qua-Qua, I think.

0:31.9

I know that's a fruit because we had them in my yard as a kid, but I don't think that's how he spell it, but you know teach their own

0:37.8

His question is what separates a good athlete from an elite athlete is a genetics luck disciplined and or resources.

0:46.8

You know I don't know what most people would say but I think one you have to define already

0:51.6

what a good athlete is from elite.

0:53.9

If we're talking about a professional athlete from an all-time great or are we talking about

1:01.2

pretty good varsity basketball guy versus Michael Jordan, you know, like or even powerlifting.

1:07.0

Someone who wins a local meet versus Russ Swall or an Ed cone who will go down like kind of in the Mount Rushmore's.

1:14.4

So it depends what you consider good and great.

1:18.3

I think resources probably has to be number one because without exposure to something you just don't know if you're good so if you never you know if you grew up in an island that doesn't have a barbell gym

1:32.2

You could be the best powerlifter on the planet

1:34.1

it doesn't matter kind of like Janis yeah yeah like kind of Janis in a sense

1:37.4

where Janis had no clue then he just stumbled upon a basketball court I think in

1:41.3

Greece when he was 16.

1:44.6

Francis and Gano, I don't think, fought anyone

1:46.6

until he's 20 and go down as one of the best

1:49.0

MMA fighters of all time.

1:50.0

So exposure and resources probably have to be number one.

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