I’m sure you’ve heard these terms before:
- Work Ethic
- Sacrifice
- Mentality
- Grit
- Culture
- Grind
- etc …
Or the saying: “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
It’s just the reality.
If you want to get back those 6 pack abs, it’s not going to happen by sitting on your ass, eating Cheetos, drinking beers, and binge-watching Netflix every day.
There’s case study after case study, testimonial after testimonial. And we’ll testify as well after having seen what happens to countless players who have passed through our tutelage, and the cohort we’ve competed against and monitored.
In today’s episode, Gary Kleiban joins me to share his thoughts and observations regarding worth ethic, sacrifice, culture, and mentality, with personal anecdotes and stories of players he’s very familiar with.
We also provide some practical advice for parents who are looking for ways to help their players instill better habits and create an advantage for themselves.
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Another worth-listening-to episode from two guys that I admire because they both exemplify ALL of the attributes they talk about in the podcast, and the ones I suggest at the end here. They are not players but are entrepreneurs and the set of attributes applies. If you know their personal stories… Work Ethic? Check. Sacrifice? Check, Mentality? Check, Grit? Double check.
What I would add to the attribute list are three things:
1. Failure/setback recovery. Maybe this is a subset of grit but all players (and referees) get injured, hit plateaus, get cut arbitrarily etc. Like players, entrepreneurs fail often (my personal list is long) but the ones that make it after those setbacks have that mentality to accept it, learn from it, and do something positive about it.
2. Relationship management. You better be talented like Zlatan to burn a bridge, as only he can do. Otherwise, relationship management is essential even at the player level. Players that make it generally move around a lot, sometimes reuniting with teams, management, or coaches. It can even happen at the club level when your U9 coach is suddenly your U16 coach. I would imagine that in the agency business, this is probably everything.
3. Giving & giving back. Karma or whatever, this is an activity that pays dividends. Help your player, help your teammate thru the setback. The return may be very disconnected in time but I am sure it is real.