[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Leadership]] - People: [[John Wooden]], [[Bill Walton]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2POmnBX80s4 --- ## Summary - [[It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.]] - [[Never mistake activity for achievement]]. - [[All progress requires change. Not all change is progress.]] - [[Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.]] - [[When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks]]. - [[It's what you learn after you know it all that counts]]. ## Notes ### Principles - [[Don't beat yourself, don't cheat yourself, don't shortchange yourself. That's the worse kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.]] - Practice [[The pyramid of success]]. - Be mindful of [[The seven point creed]]. - [[Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.]]; known as the "two sets of threes". ### Maxims - Have a maxim and a mantra for everything. - [[Be quick, but don't hurry.]] - [[Failing to prepare is preparing to fail]]. - [[Happiness begins when selfishness ends]]. - [[Never mistake activity for achievement]]. - [[The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves]]. - [[When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks]]. - [[We can agree to disagree, but we don't need to be disagreeable.]] - [[It's what you learn after you know it all that counts]]. - [[It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.]] - It's not about stuff, material accumulation, or physical gratification. It's about training the mind to become that champion; to think, dream, exist to be that champion. - It's about subjugating the ego. - [[Egos out of control always destroy]]. - When things fail, it always comes back to lack of honour, selfishness, and greed. The opposites of [[Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.|Two sets of threes]]. - [[Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress]]. - [[You'll never learn what you don't want to know]] - [[You haven't taught until they've learned]].