Books + Bars: Pete Carroll, "Win Forever"

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Soccer, Football, Basketball, Crossfit, Mindset, Sports, Psychology, Dominate, Business

4.8 • 755 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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One of the best coaches in the NFL wrote a book outlining his philosophy, so I feel it's a no-brainer to read it and mine for gold. In this episode, I break down what I learned from Pete Carroll about the power of communication, and why it's critical to get right as a leader... and why it's deadly if you don't.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your edition of Books and Bars.
0:06.5	All right. It's a bonus episode that I release every Wednesday where I break down books,
0:12.7	where I break down bars, which is rap songs, lyrics from rap songs, and give you my take.
0:19.0	All right? Give you my take. So this book is by, this is a book's episode
0:23.3	where I'm breaking out a book is by Pete Carroll. It's called Win Forever, all right? Now,
0:27.9	Pete Carroll is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, which are very near where I live.
0:32.8	And I'm not a huge Seahawks fan, but I don't really have a team, never really had a team growing up.
0:37.7	But the Seahawks have been doing great.
0:40.8	They're off to a slow start this year, but the Seahawks have done and created a very powerful
0:47.1	culture since Pete Carroll got there.
0:49.3	And he came from USC where he absolutely crushed it at USC, Matt Liner, Reggie Bush, Lendell White, a bunch
0:58.3	of guys came through there. They were doing a thing, all right? But this book is great
1:01.8	because he talks about his story and I read it. I mean, I've read, I don't know, there's
1:07.0	got to be some coaches books that I haven't read, but I've read a lot of coaches' books
1:10.5	and I find it very fascinating because I think it's so cool. You got to be some coaches books that I haven't read, but I've read a lot of coaches' books,
1:15.5	and I find them very fascinating because I think it's, I think it's so cool. You get to get in the mind of like the world's greatest athletes, coaches, and they have books, man. They've basically
1:21.5	written out their philosophy. And he talks in here about the mistakes that he made. So
1:25.9	communication, the ability to communicate
1:28.8	and get along well with people and basically influence people, I would argue, is the number one
1:33.7	skill that you must have as a leader or as a high performer in general. And it's probably the
1:40.3	thing that makes the most people unhappy, even people who are not quote-unquote high performers. Think about it. Relationships with people is what makes people unhappy. Bosses at work,
1:52.9	teammates you can't deal with, children you know how to deal with, spouses and wives.
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