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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Whining Winners | Why the Belichick Method Works & Why Most People Resent a Culture of Discipline

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

When former Patriots players leave the team to play football on other NFL teams, many whine about Belichick and his intense accountability that produces victories every year. Clay Clark breaks down why success is not possible without discipline, and why most people resent accountability.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And no, from the center of the universe.

0:30.0

All right, Thrive Nation. Welcome back to the Thrive Times show on your radio. And

0:46.0

everybody just tuning in for the first time on the Thrive Times show. What we talk about

0:49.9

is business school without the BS. And today we're talking about essentially is discipline,

0:57.5

this concept of being held accountable. And I find chup that a lot of people don't want

1:06.2

to be held accountable. But I have found that the most successful people actually seek

1:11.7

out accountability. Yeah, it's one, it's a way to get mentorship and get coaching and

1:16.6

how to get better. And two, if you're already in a player, it's like a scoreboard, right?

1:20.6

Like you can just kind of brag that you get your stuff done because the person that's

1:23.7

holding you accountable is checking in on what you're doing. So the entire show today,

1:27.9

we're going to use the New England Patriots as we get closer to football season. We're

1:32.1

going to use the New England Patriots as an example. But recently in the media, a lot

1:37.7

of former patriots every year, it happens. But as you had kind of into the season, former

1:42.6

patriots become the whining winners. So they won all the time. And now they whine when

1:48.5

they go to a new team, they whine about the culture, they whine, they say, the bill,

1:53.2

Bella check method, while it works, really is something that I resent. Although it works,

1:59.2

I really am not happy about. I know that it works. And I know that you'd allowed me to

2:05.1

have success. But I just, I didn't like it. So, Chup, I'd like you to read this article,

2:10.2

this article excerpt from USA Today. This is an article called What It's Like to Play

2:16.2

for Bill Belichick. It says, to be great on the field, you have to be emotional. To be great

2:21.7

upstairs in the front office, you have to be robotic. Feel savage who worked under Belichick

2:26.9

with the Cleveland Browns told ESPN and the magazine in a story from October. The way he

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