How to Become Excellent at Something (with NBA Hall of Fame basketball player, David Robinson)

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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David Robinson explains the importance of becoming excellent at something as opposed to being a jack of all trades and a master of none.

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0:00.0	Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show. Three, two, one, boom.
0:08.6	All right, Thrive Nation, welcome back to the conversation.
0:11.4	During today's podcast, we have a treat.
0:14.5	We are joined here with the NBA Hall of Famer and my friend and partner, David Robinson.
0:21.5	David Robinson is a basketball player.
0:25.0	Yes, that was a basketball player.
0:27.2	Yes, I would say that is accurate.
0:29.8	You can't refute the fact that he was an NBA Hall of Famer basketball player.
0:33.4	You can't refute the fact that he won two gold medals while playing on the NBA's dream
0:38.7	teams for the, for the US Olympics there.
0:42.3	I guess it was the NBA's dream team.
0:44.2	It was a dream team, a US Olympic team comprised of NBA greats and he was one of those players
0:50.6	selected.
0:51.6	Yes, he does own part of the San Antonio Spurs.
0:55.9	But beyond that, David Robinson has probably had more success off the field, off the court,
1:04.2	off the sporting, outside of the world of sports that he had inside the world of sports.
1:11.6	Think about that.
1:12.6	I mean, he was one of the top basketball players of his generation.
1:15.9	He was a center, I know if there's ladies listening and guy listening who are maybe not
1:20.3	huge sports fans, but he was the center for the San Antonio Spurs.
1:25.7	When he started, when he was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs, he wasn't allowed to play
1:31.5	those first couple of years because he had to, so he went to the US Navy Academy, the US
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