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Episode 213 #212 Michael Jordan: The Life
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Episode 213: #212 Michael Jordan: The Life

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Episode 213

#212 Michael Jordan: The Life

David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from reading Driven From Within by Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil.

What I learned from reading Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby.

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[5:07] His competence was exceeded only by his confidence.

[5:58] He worked at the game, and if he wasn't good at something, he had the motivation to be the best at it.

[6:33] It seemed that he discovered the secret quite early in his competitive life: the more pressure he heaped on himself, the greater his ability to rise to the occasion.

[14:06] At each step along his path, others would express amazement at how hard he competed. At every level, he was driven as if he were pursuing something that others couldn't see.

[16:10] Whenever I was working out and got tired and figured I ought to stop, I'd close my eyes and see that list in the locker room without my name on it, and that got me going again.

[19:29] Jordan could sense immediately that he had something the others didn't.

[59:53] The Jordan Rules succeeded against the Bulls so well that they became textbook for guarding athletic scorers. The scheme helped Detroit win two NBA championships, but it also helped in the long run, by forcing Jordan to find an answer. "I think that 'Jordan Rules' defense, as much as anything else, played a part in the making of Michael Jordan," Tex Winter said.

[1:16:35] Jordan had been surprised to learn how lazy many of his Olympic teammates were about practice, how they were deceiving themselves about what the game required.

[1:19:56] I have always liked practice and I hate to miss it. When you miss that one day, you feel like you missed a lot. You take extra work to make up for that one day. I've always been a practice player. I believe in it.

[1:29:47] Jordan presented a singleness of purpose that was hard to dent.
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#212 Michael Jordan: The Life

Introduction

His relentless determination produced 6 NBA championships and some of the most spectacular performances in sports history, while his enduring grace and unique sense of style made him equally famous in the worlds of fashion, business and marketing.


In Driven from Within, Michael makes it clear that the basis for his phenomenal success came from the inside out, thanks in part to those who guided him along the way. His skill, work ethic, philosophy, personal style, competitiveness and presence have flowed from the basketball court and into every facet of his life. Nearly 3 years removed from his last turn as an athlete, Michael's 20th Air Jordan Shoe has helped push Nike's Brand Jordan division to nearly $500 million in sales.


This is a book about the power of collaboration and teamwork. The all-inspiring energy generated when people combine their creativity and passion and a fearless desire to lead, whether it's waking up at 6 a.m. to work on fundamentals as a high school junior or spending hours with legendary designer, Tinker Hatfield, on the intricacies of state-of-the-art shoe design. Michael Jordan has never wavered in his desire to be the best. Everyone knows the results. In Driven from Within, Michael Jordan and those in his inner circle revealed the philosophy that made it all happen.

So that is from the inside cover of the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Driven from Within and it was written by Michael Jordan and Mark Vancil. So I was not expecting to do this book right now. It's actually 200 pages into another book that hopefully will come in the next few days. But ever since I read that almost 700-page biography of Michael Jordan, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Just the ability to look into Michael Jordan's mindset and operating system really motivated me and really fired me up actually. And so I had read like briefly the introduction to this book. It sounds like, you know what, I need to do this right now. I feel compelled to, I can't put this book down.

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