[[Notes]]
- Topics: [[Leadership]]
- People: [[John Wooden]], [[Bill Walton]]
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2POmnBX80s4
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## 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]].