Manu Ginóbili - NBA Spurs Legend on the Philosophy of Peak Performance
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast, Ryan talks with NBA legend Manu Ginóbili about how he reads books to help his athletic career, using your emotions to perform better, and how to find a mentor in competitive situations.
Manu Ginóbili played 16 seasons with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs, winning four championships as the quintessential sixth man. Ginobili led the 2004 Argentina national basketball team to Olympic gold, the only non-American team to do so since the US Dream Team.
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| 0:22.0 | Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school. |
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| 1:09.0 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
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| 1:33.0 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
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| 2:28.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 2:36.0 | If you remember in the obstacles the way I tell the story of Tommy John and Tommy John played 26 seasons in Major League Baseball. It was a picture. |
| 2:47.0 | And I was sort of marveling in that section on him on how long 26 seasons was. I think when he started Kennedy was president and when he ended George HW Bush was president. |
| 3:00.0 | He pitched against Mickey Mantle and Mark McGuire. So 26 seasons, you know, in a normal job 26 years is a long time to give you maybe a gold watch or something. |
| 3:11.0 | I think my dad worked for the police department for 25 years. It's a long time. But in athletics, that's like that's like an eternity. That's like several lifetimes. |
| 3:22.0 | And my guests today, Manu Genobli of the San Antonio Spurs was drafted by the Spurs. He was the 57th overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft. |
| 3:35.0 | And he didn't end up actually playing for the Spurs until 2002 played in Europe for a few more seasons. But he played 23 seasons in the NBA, which is incredible. |
| 3:46.0 | I think the Spurs have consecutively made, they made the playoffs his entire career. And I think they've now made it in both seasons that he he has been retired. |
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