I'm going to show you how great I am.

Yes, let's have Siamy Sala.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson, and we've got a great mini episode for you today.

We should be having more mini episodes coming your way.

We're going to be releasing weekly in 2022,

so we'll have a good mix of shorter episodes and mini episodes,

as well as the longer series that you're used to.

To start off with, this episode is a lesson I learned from reading about one of my heroes, a man

by the name of John Wooden. John Wooden was a basketball coach at UCLA, the University of California,

Los Angeles. And for those of you outside the United States, college sports function much like minor leagues or junior

professionals here in the United States. Top players will typically go to play college sports for a year or so

before turning professional. So it is considered high-level athletics here in the U.S. And in college

athletics, John Wooden is considered probably the greatest coach of all time. He won 10 championships in 12 years at UCLA, including seven in a row,

and that's a record that is unmatched in men's college basketball,

and as far as I know, in college athletics in general.

I'm sure someone will email me to tell me about an exception,

but John Wooden is considered one of the greats.

And he was also a great teacher and mentor. If you've

seen Karate Kid, John Wooden was sort of a Mr. Miyagi type of character. He was known for his

aphorisms and sayings. He was known as someone who was very wise, someone who knew a lot about

not just basketball, but about life in general. So he wrote a few books, and people have compiled

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