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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Perseverance and Personal Growth with Mark Kerr

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I sit down with Mark Kerr, a legendary wrestler and mixed martial artist. We explore the profound distinction between strength and force, and how understanding this helped Mark achieve success in his career, from NCAA champion to UFC heavyweight champion. Mark shares his insights on perseverance, personal growth, and the importance of embracing every experience. We discuss the evolving role of content creators as storytellers, the power of creating meaningful connections, and the significance of being true to oneself beyond professional accomplishments. Mark also reflects on his mission to create close, personal relationships and the journey to understand his true purpose.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:12.0

Welcome to Office Hours.

0:13.0

I'm David Meltzer, and it's time for the executive spotlight.

0:16.3

And do I have a special guest for our spotlight today?

0:19.8

The universe has brought him to the studio here at the win. We have our friend Mark

0:25.2

Kerr. Welcome to office hours. Yeah I appreciate that. Thank you for having me

0:29.8

David. You know it's amazing we're just talking about no coincidences and I talk about the

0:35.4

coinciding of intention and intention well your start was in wrestling and

0:41.1

and understanding attention and intention is a dichotomy between two things.

0:47.0

Strength and force. And as a wrestler, we're taught and conditioned about force.

0:57.0

But the greatest martial mixed artists,

1:00.0

UFC fighters and wrestlers, who I'm blessed to be around the greatest in the world,

1:05.0

they understand the difference between strength and force.

1:10.0

So I wanted to start out as an executive to help us understand that lesson, that paradigm that you've learned in your career from wrestling into being featured in documentaries and movies being made about you and

1:24.9

championships. How and what is the relationship between strength and force?

1:30.3

Oh that's a great question.

1:34.0

You know, strength for me was always internal, right?

1:38.7

That was the whole paradigm that I had in myself, like,

1:43.0

did I have the strength to persevere,

1:45.0

did I have the strength to endure what I was going through,

1:48.5

and then the force or will to carry it out. You know, that was the big, big shift in

1:55.4

in in understanding and part of part of my growth as a as a wrestler. I always

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