Men’s Life Plan

so we might as well win!”

Bill Russell-Celtic Great.

“The good Lord had blessed me, as a player, with tremendous quickness and a desire to be the best conditioned player in basketball. Therefore, it took me quite awhile as a coach to realize that the great majority of players would not pay the price of conditioning unless they were driven. Later on, I came to see that I could make them work if I kept after them and repeated things time and again. But they could never be forced to do anything by brute strength. It was like one of our old mules — you could hitch him to the wagon or the plow, but you could not make him go. I continually told my teams that the last law of learning — repetition — is the most important.”

This is a theme that I will often return to throughout the post. If you want to be great at anything, you must practice over and over that thing until you master the thing.

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