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It’s An Inside Job: Olaniyi Sobomehin On How To Maximize Potential In Sport & Life
We tend to assume the successful are simply gifted. Or perhaps just lucky — at the right place at the right time.
Olaniyi Sobomehin is not one of those people.
But he does have one thing most lack: vision and self-belief.
A middle child with a life long dream to play in the NFL, Niyi lacked the natural gifts required to even earn a college football scholarship. Friends and family repeated the refrain: be realistic. Niyi ignored the advice, invested in himself and walked on the Oregon State program with little to no chance of seeing game time.
But sheer determination, exceptional mental…
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