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Fear of Failure – How to Turn Fear Into Your Greatest Motivation · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Because I think the greatest fear that we face is ourselves. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think it's it's not anything that's external
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  Speaker 1: or anything that's superficial. I think the greatest fear you
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  Speaker 1: face is yourself, because you know, we all have dreams,
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  Speaker 1: and it's very scary sometimes to accept the dream that
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  Speaker 1: you have, and it's scarier still to say, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: want that. It's scary because you're afraid that if you
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  Speaker 1: put your heart and soul into it and you fail,
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  Speaker 1: then how are you going to feel about yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Covie, you won the MVP, you led the team to
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  Speaker 2: the finals.
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  Speaker 3: How do you characterize this season?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean the goal is to win a championship.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't to win MVP or anything like that, to
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  Speaker 1: win a championship.
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  Speaker 3: So from that aspect we fail. If I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go down, I'm going to go down my way.
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  Speaker 1: So being fearless means putting yourself out there and going
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  Speaker 1: for it no matter what. Go for it, not for
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  Speaker 1: anybody else, but for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I take you to the scene, twenty seconds left to go,
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  Speaker 2: you're down by one, You want the ball, you wanna
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  Speaker 2: take the last shot.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm not afraid to fail and I.
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  Speaker 3: I just love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's just an adenuine rush. Everybody in the crowd
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  Speaker 1: stands up and everybody's waiting to see if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the shot, if you're gonna lose the game, where
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna win the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's it's an unbelievable rush. If he swings big
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  Speaker 3: and this is big. Same thing with me. I have
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  Speaker 3: no fear. What's the weever?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know that sometimes you look back at the
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  Speaker 2: defender to watch their expression.
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  Speaker 3: What's that like? Yeah, it's uh, you know you you
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  Speaker 3: get to feel.
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  Speaker 1: With the defenders and it's like, oh man, no, I
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  Speaker 1: just can't not not tonight, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I thrive off that. You love that, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you love that? Like defeated look Yoh absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I used to ask him, what's it like to guard Mike? Mike,
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  Speaker 1: I mean black Jesus, Like, what the fruit? So the
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  Speaker 1: level of fear that he inspired in the others was insane,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the hype of going in begins Mike.
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  Speaker 1: It was Okay, let's go show me like I've been
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  Speaker 1: watching you playing my whole life, show me.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see this. Everybody calling you black Jesus
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  Speaker 3: and all this other You have to show me.
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  Speaker 1: Man, And I would tell him, I said, when I
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  Speaker 1: face him, We're gonna go at it. It's all you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do that. I'm like, what, man, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know me. Man.
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  Speaker 3: Michael's a great basketball player, but I'm Kobe Bryant.
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  Speaker 1: I went out there and we went head up, and
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  Speaker 1: I think his respect and appreciation for me really grew
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  Speaker 1: that day because you saw on the biggest stage. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't shy away from that confrontation. I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: that confrontation. And you know, when I was eighteen, my
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  Speaker 1: first year, he got the best of me a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of times.
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  Speaker 3: I was right there the next play. You're not intimidating me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he saw that level of respect because
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  Speaker 1: I think he was the same way at eighteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: And that common bond is what I think where our
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  Speaker 1: connection was built. Who beat you one on one? If
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  Speaker 1: whatever happened, all right? You once said, if you see
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  Speaker 1: me in the fight with the bear, pray for the bear.
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  Speaker 3: Is that still gonna be true when you come back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bears having a hard time. I'm beating the bear
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  Speaker 1: pretty good, right now? That matter cool playing you for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really a thing, you know, like you think
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  Speaker 1: about game winning shots and or game winning free throws
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  Speaker 1: when people go to the free throwing and they're nervous
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  Speaker 1: about it, Well, what are you really nervous about?
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  Speaker 3: If you unpack that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're nervous that you're going to miss the shot,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So you missed the shot, then what happens?
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  Speaker 1: People are going to be embarrassed. You're going to be
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed because thousands of people, millions people say you missed
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  Speaker 1: a shot, all right, and then what people want to
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  Speaker 1: talk bad about you?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: And so you're looking at it, are those things even important?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? If that that is my fear?
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  Speaker 3: Like what is you worried about letting your teammates down? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Have you let them down before?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure? And practice and things of that nature, right,
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  Speaker 3: they're still there? Yeah, you know. And so when you're
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  Speaker 3: able to unpack it, you kind of look at it
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  Speaker 3: for what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But you do, how did you become one of those
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  Speaker 1: people who doesn't seem to be afraid of failing?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't make sience it's not existent. But what does
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  Speaker 3: that mean? Seriously, what does failure mean? It's not it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't it doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's use happy in this, right, and then we
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  Speaker 1: can relate this to failure.
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  Speaker 3: Why it's not existent? Like everybody talks about it, like
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  Speaker 3: everybody wants a happier again. Right now, let's go to
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  Speaker 3: your reality. Right, just look at a fairy tail store.
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  Speaker 3: It's like at snow White.
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  Speaker 1: She gets a happy ending and she finds prints or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: she goes along she lives happily. Ever after, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: call bullshit on that because two months later, the fact
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  Speaker 1: is they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So the point this, the point is the story continues.
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  Speaker 3: The story continues.
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  Speaker 1: So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's
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  Speaker 1: a failure on Monday is if you decide to not
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  Speaker 1: progress from that.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So that so, to me, that's why failure is not existing,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, if I fail today, Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: learn something from that failure and I'm gonna try again
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and I feel I'm gonna try get one
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  Speaker 1: from this. Injury was mount Everest for me personally, because
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  Speaker 1: I knew what the long road was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, at that point you have to make
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  Speaker 1: a decision. You have to make a choice. It's really hard, man,
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  Speaker 1: because it's such a tedious process. And what I found
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  Speaker 1: helpful is to not look at the top of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain because the mountain is so damned aalting, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like right, so like if you're saying, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna climb Mount Everest, you're at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain and you look up and you're going, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna go Mount evere right, But if you break it
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  Speaker 1: down into sections, you just one foot in front of
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  Speaker 1: the other, one step at the time. So instead I
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  Speaker 1: just choose to focus on one step at a time
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  Speaker 1: and then when by the time you realize you at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the mountain again. And that's how I
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  Speaker 1: handled all my recoveries, to just focus on the next thing,
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  Speaker 1: Focus on the next thing, focus on the next thing.
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  Speaker 1: And also, you know how time flies. Time goes by
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  Speaker 1: really fast. So like when you're sitting here in the
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  Speaker 1: moment dealing with the injury, that's a nine month injury,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it but when twelve months go by,
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  Speaker 1: you don't wish she did, because it goes by like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's always been my approach.
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  Speaker 1: It's just one step at a time, one step at
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  Speaker 1: the time, it is, And I didn't want the injuries
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  Speaker 1: dictating when out the time. I wanted to control that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, no, my body, sit down, be humble. You're
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  Speaker 1: not telling me when I'm walking away. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you when I'm ready to go. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those moments. And I think we all
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  Speaker 1: have moments like this in life where it just seems
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  Speaker 1: like that day is never going to end. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like the moment that your rain just
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  Speaker 1: feels like the darkest moment to you. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: personally feel like, I don't know if I can do
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  Speaker 1: this again. I don't know if I can come back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And you have to issue that challenge to
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  Speaker 1: yourself and try to respond to that.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I want to start off by reading something that
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  Speaker 4: you wrote right after you're injured. He went on Facebook
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  Speaker 4: and you posted a lengthy blog.
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  Speaker 1: You know what this is?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he said, this is such bs.
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  Speaker 4: All the training and sacrifice, just flew out the window
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  Speaker 4: with one step that I've done millions of times. The
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  Speaker 4: frustration is unbearable, anger is raged. Why the hell did
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  Speaker 4: this happen? Makes no damn sense. Now I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 4: come back from this and be the same player or
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  Speaker 4: better at thirty five. How in the world am I
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  Speaker 4: supposed to do that?
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  Speaker 3: I have no clue.
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  Speaker 4: Do I have the consistent will to overcome this thing?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I should break out the rocking chair and reminisce
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  Speaker 4: on the career that was. Maybe this is how my
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  Speaker 4: book ends. Maybe father time has defeated me. Then again,
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  Speaker 4: maybe not. It's three thirty am. My foot feels like
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  Speaker 4: dead weight, my head is spinning from the pain meds,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm wide awake. Forgive my vetting, but what's the
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  Speaker 4: purpose of social media.
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  Speaker 3: If I won't bring it to you real, no image.
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  Speaker 4: It feels good to vent, to let it out, to
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  Speaker 4: feel as if this is the worst thing ever, because
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  Speaker 4: after all the venting, the real perspective sets in. There
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  Speaker 4: are far greater issues and challenges in the world than
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  Speaker 4: a torn Achilles. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, find the
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  Speaker 4: silver lining, and get to work with the same belief,
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  Speaker 4: same drive and the same conviction as ever one day
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  Speaker 4: at the beginning of a new career journey, what commence
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  Speaker 4: today is not that day. If you see me in
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  Speaker 4: a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.
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  Speaker 3: I've always loved that quote.
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  Speaker 4: That's Mamba mentality. We don't quit, we don't cower, we
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  Speaker 4: don't run, We endure and conquer.
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  Speaker 3: My brain cannot, it cannot process failure. It will not
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  Speaker 3: process failure.
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  Speaker 1: Because if I have to, if I sit there and
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  Speaker 1: have to face myself and tell myself, you know you're
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  Speaker 1: you're You're a failure, I think that's that's a worse
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  Speaker 1: that's almost worse than death.
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  Speaker 3: Why and again going to work falls down. Yeah, he's struggling.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as I made to move, I knew it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the Achilles. I mean, I mean I
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't say that's good.
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  Speaker 1: I put it in Jim. I remember feeling the silence.
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  Speaker 1: I remember feeling the fear. Thirty five years old, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: eighteen years in the league. This could be a rap
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  Speaker 1: and that's what the silence was. It was like, this
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  Speaker 1: could really be it. It was hard man, because the
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  Speaker 1: Achilles injury is the worst injury for an athlete.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the worst. It's like the kiss of death.
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  Speaker 3: And when I.
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  Speaker 1: Ruptured my achilles, I knew what happened. I knew the
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  Speaker 1: severity of the injury, and I didn't know if I
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  Speaker 1: was going to come back on it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in the locker room, you're crying. Yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: think this is it, like my career could be oldway.
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  Speaker 1: Were the most terrifying dreams for me. It was a
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  Speaker 1: dream of me being on a basketball court. Stadium's full,
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  Speaker 1: I'm attacking the basket and I can't get off the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I can't jump, like I'm stuck, like I'm cemented to
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  Speaker 1: the floor. I was conscious of the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: was dreaming. So now I'm trying to control my dream.
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  Speaker 1: You can jump through it, you can push through it,
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  Speaker 1: you can get to that basket. And no matter how
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  Speaker 1: hard I tried my legs with too heavy, can't jump.
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  Speaker 4: Telling you you don't play defense any better than Morgan
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  Speaker 4: Patterson did.
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  Speaker 3: This crowd is in cole shock. Yes I'm talking out
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  Speaker 3: and I'm talking about teammates. I said, give me and we're.
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  Speaker 1: Going home with a w What I try to do
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  Speaker 1: is just try to be still and understand that Things
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  Speaker 1: come and go, Emotions come and go. The important thing
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  Speaker 1: is to accept them all, to embrace them all, and
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  Speaker 1: then you can choose to do with them what you want,
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  Speaker 1: versus being controlled by emotion.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of times I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: Players, even myself, you know, when I was younger, being
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  Speaker 1: consumed by a particular fear and to the point where
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, okay, nah, it's it's not good to feel fear.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't be nervous in the situation, right, it does nothing
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  Speaker 1: but grow, versus stepping back and saying, yeah, I am
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  Speaker 1: nervous about the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am fearful about the situation. But what am
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  Speaker 3: I afraid of?
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  Speaker 1: And then you kind of unpack it, and then it
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  Speaker 1: gives you a bilability to look at it for really
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  Speaker 1: what it is, which is nothing more than your imagination
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  Speaker 1: running its course. You know, you'll have the pressure on
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  Speaker 1: yourself to play, you know, to capitulate to that fear.
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  Speaker 1: If you play with the sense of I want to win,
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  Speaker 1: I want to win, and you have the fear of
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  Speaker 1: what happens if you don't.
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  Speaker 3: But if you find common ground in the middle, in
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  Speaker 3: the center, then it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You're unphased by either right, and that enables you to
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  Speaker 1: really just stay in a moment, stay connected to it,
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  Speaker 1: and not feel anything other than what's in front of you.
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  Speaker 3: So and I try to just be dead center.
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  Speaker 1: When we lost to in the finance to the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, that was a turning point. So
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  Speaker 1: when I sat there in the hotel room afterwards, I
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  Speaker 1: started thinking about that because it's on me. If I
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like my teammates were aggressive enough, that falls
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  Speaker 1: on me, and I had to understand what their journey
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  Speaker 1: was as how are they feeling as people?
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  Speaker 3: What are they going through? For me, it is that
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  Speaker 3: ferocity or that anger rage. I carry that with me now.
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  Speaker 1: You can't know how the line still is to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my guys, to the rest of my teens,
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  Speaker 1: using the darker emotions anger or resentment or frustration and.
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  Speaker 3: Sadness, and using that as a weapon, using that as
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  Speaker 3: as a form of offers.
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  Speaker 1: That's some people are probably afraid to tap into that
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  Speaker 1: side of them, but it's such a powerful thing. Once
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  Speaker 1: they own it themselves, then the sky is the limit
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  Speaker 1: because they're going to drive themselves and pull it from
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  Speaker 1: who they are and all of their life.
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  Speaker 3: Experiences and things that have motivated most. Trust with the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the script and just start driving, needling right, pushing.
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  Speaker 3: What are you still waiting for a big smile out
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  Speaker 3: of you? You're up too old? What's the story? Are
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  Speaker 3: you not happy or you're only half happier instead of
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  Speaker 3: be happier about me? You're up too old. Job's not finished,
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  Speaker 3: Job finished, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: After we think that we have a bond now that
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  Speaker 1: unites us forever, forever.
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  Speaker 3: You have a bond that I'll never be broken, because yeah,
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  Speaker 3: lion looked us in the face, and we looked back