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Colin Kaepernick - "Pressure comes from a lack of preparation." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's jump straight into
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  today's Quote of the Day. Today's quote comes from Colin
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  Kaepernick, a former NFL quarterback for the San
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  Francisco 49ers Super Bowl finalist and one of the most
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  recognizable figures in the history of American sports
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  activism. A man who has faced more
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  pressure on the field and off it than most people will ever
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  counter in an entire lifetime. He once said pressure comes from
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  a lack of preparation. Interesting.
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  Now that's the first idea. Hold on to that, because by the
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  end of today's episode, we're going to turn it completely
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  around. At face value, Kaepernick's
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  quote is about as direct as wisdom gets.
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  Pressure isn't random, and it isn't bad luck.
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  It isn't something that simply arrives from outside and
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  overwhelms you. It is, at least in part, a
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  signal, a gap made obvious, the distance between where your
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  preparation ends and where the moment demands you to be.
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  Think about situations in your life that have felt
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  overwhelming, the deadline that sent you into a panic, the
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  conversation you dreaded, the performance that kept you up at
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  night. In almost every case, at the
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  root of the pressure was some version of the same thing.
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  Not enough time spent preparing, not enough reps taken in
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  practice, not enough quiet work done before the intense moment
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  arrived. Kaepernick lived this truth at
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  the highest level of professional sport as a
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  quarterback breeding a defense in real time with 80,000 people
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  watching and 300 LB men moving toward him.
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  That is pressure at its most literal form, and his answer to
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  it was always the same, he said. Sometimes when things are going
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  really well, I feel like I've already seen things like I'm
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  watching a rerun because I've studied this defense and I know
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  what comes next. Preparation doesn't eliminate
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  the moment, It makes the moment feel familiar.
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  And familiar is the opposite of pressure.
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  So that's the first truth. Most pressure is a preparation
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  problem in disguise. But here's where the story takes
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  a turn. Because there's a second kind of
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  pressure, one that no amount of preparation can prevent.
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  The kind that doesn't come from being unprepared.
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  The kind that comes from being in the middle of becoming
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  something. The pressure of growth, the
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  discomfort of the hard season, the weight of a challenge that
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  is actively making you better, even when it doesn't feel that
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  way. And for that kind of pressure,
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  an unknown author left us with this quote.
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  What feels like pressure today is often preparation in
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  disguise. Read that alongside Kaepernick's
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  quote, and something extraordinary happens.
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  The two ideas complete each other.
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  Kaepernick tells us that pressure reveals where
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  preparation is missing, and the unknown author tells us that
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  sometimes the pressure itself is the preparation, the difficulty,
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  the resistance, the discomfort that is quietly building
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  something in you that cannot be built any other way.
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  I've been training for a new job for the past two weeks,
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  something totally new and different from what I've done in
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  the past. The training has been intense.
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  Everyday new information, practice and then homework with
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  lots of reading and quizzes to complete.
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  Definitely information overload. And at the end, we had a final
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  exam as well as an on the job test to determine our ability to
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  use the new skills safely. It definitely felt like
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  pressure, but that pressure is the preparation so that we don't
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  feel it when we're actually working on the jaw because now
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  we're prepared. So here's the question first,
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  where is pressure showing up in your life right now that is
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  pointing directly at a gap in your preparation?
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  What are you being called to prepare for more thoroughly?
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  And 2nd, where is pressure showing up?
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  That isn't a gap at all, but growth in progress.
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  What difficult season are you currently in the middle of that
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  might not be breaking you down, but quietly building you up?
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  Because both are true. Sometimes pressure comes from a
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  lack of preparation, and sometimes what feels like
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  pressure today is preparation in disguise.
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  That's it for today. I'm Anna Mcgeburn, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.