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Daily Boost Ep 421: The Pathway to Greatness

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Charlie Harary

The path to being the best is to ensure that “thing” does not take over your identity.

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[Music] okay good morning everybody everybody as well happy wednesday welcome to the booth thanks so much for joining us we've spent the whole week talking about this idea of identity using a little bit of football listen it's super bowl week you know you gotta give after sunday like now we gotta what are we gonna talk about about gm changes and coaches and but you gotta let the football guys have a couple more days someone talked about tom brady those who don't know tom brady is he's a quarterback maybe the greatest of all time he was picked 199th in the draft which is incredible that's the sixth round i think there were five quarterbacks picked before him considered to be too slow too lanky not this not that became the greatest ever became the greatest ever now if you'd ask me about tom brady 22 years in the league one of the oldest guys in the league the life of a football player doesn't last past 30 mid 30s you know how hard it is on your body you know how fast everyone else is he was in mid he was mid 40s i think tom brady's like 44. so he retires and he sends around an email and i was upset in the beginning and i'm really upset but i was disappointed upset but i was disappointed and i'll tell you why because when great people retire they don't announce they're retiring like in a press conference when grey people retire from a sport they give you like a year's heads up right they say we're retiring after the season so that the whole world now could like acclimate ted right like regular players like finish and they're like it's been a pleasure like thanks it's been great all right great players the best players

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  1. 0:08[Music] okay good morning everybody everybody as well happy wednesday welcome to the booth thanks so
  2. 1:08became the greatest ever now if you'd ask me about tom brady 22 years in the
  3. 2:40players try not to retire but they don't get picked up and they get traded whatever
  4. 3:41you understand like this thing's all choreographed you know and that when there's no news at
  5. 5:11that require my attention and i read that line and it felt to me that the
  6. 6:41in an environment that is the most competitive in the world imagine being the best quarterback
  7. 7:44just play ball they don't they kill themselves all the time and at some point you
  8. 9:15identity then you can adapt then you can change then you can grow then you could
  9. 10:18i have to focus my energy elsewhere there are other parts of my life that are
  10. 11:52who i am if you look at it from those eyes you'll see this is maybe

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