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Focus on the process, not the outcome

John Wooden won 10 NCAA basketball championships. Nobody else has ever come close. The secret to his success? It was teaching fundamental habits of basketball (and life?) harder, faster, more consistently, and more precisely than anybody else before or after him.

“The drills he ran at UCLA were mostly the same drills I had run back in high school—the very same drills. Coach Wooden just did them more repetitively and with more speed and precision.”


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