#472 - Alan Stein Jr - Overcoming Stress, Stagnation & Burnout
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#472 - Alan Stein Jr - Overcoming Stress, Stagnation & Burnout mentions Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, Think Like an Athlete by David Perel, The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer, and The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
That takes incredible ownership, extreme ownership.
I have a friend, David Perel, who wrote an article called Think Like an Athlete.
When you squeeze an orange, what's inside will come out.
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“Jocko Willink wrote an entire book on it, which I'm a huge fan of. And that is always looking at yourself first.”
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“The title set me off on this understanding that almost nobody treats their chosen pursuit in life with the same level of rigor that athletes do.”
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“Wayne Dyer is a little bit before my time, but was somebody that I actually really studied and listened to and read a lot of his work.”
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“Simon Sinek does a brilliant job covering this in his book, the infinite game, but basketball is a finite game.”
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“The speaker mentions covering common traits of elite basketball players in their first book, 'Raise Your Game', emphasizing the importance of fundamentals.”
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Requiem
“The speaker mentions they haven't seen 'Requiem' but have heard about it, indicating its significance in discussions about performance.”