Sublime

Be it playing the guitar, writing fiction, shooting hoops, or cooking, develop a skill you can be known for.

I realized that in top-rank competition I couldn’t count on the world being silent, so my only option was to become at peace with the noise.

He teaches The Process. “Don’t think about winning the SEC Championship. Don’t think about the national championship. Think about what you needed to do in this drill, on this play, in this moment. That’s the process: Let’s think about what we can do today, the task at hand.”

I began to realize that what I thought was a gift that you either have or don’t have was actually something that could be learned.

Those who excel are those who maximize each moment’s creative potential—for these masters of living, presence to the day-to-day learning process is akin to that purity of focus others dream of achieving in rare climactic moments when everything is on the line. The secret is that everything is always on the line. The more present we are at practice,

we learn best through practice and repetition—the natural learning process.