Elite Minds: Creating the Competitive Advantage

Long-term success is learning how to acknowledge those differences and not struggle too much on a bad day. A bad day is only a day, not a life.

It isn’t sufficient just to want. You’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only way one could fail the task was to give up. We design it so that no one can complete the task, but we don’t care that you can’t complete it. We need men who do not give up when faced with an impossible task.”

If a person thinks he or she can make it alone, they will not collaborate with others.

When a group of people have become adept at telling themselves the truth, they will automatically begin telling each other the truth.

If Barbara doesn’t expect to win, she has already forfeited the race. And so have you. You have given up your chance to find out just how fast you can go. The best way to approach a race is to win! The only way to find out how good you can really be is to be willing to give everything you have in an attempt to win. The desire to win is the same as

If you want to create an environment where performance improves, you must first make it safe to fail.

“What’s the next impossible thing that will become possible?”

Imagine going to practice or work every day and knowing that the reason you are doing what you do is because you believe that you and your teammates are going to do something really special, something that history will remember for a long time. Your whole life is changed. There is purpose in everything you do. You matter and everyone else matters,