Bobby Okereke

Wait, what brings excellence?

Competition.

Yeah, no, competition breeds excellence.

And I can't be my greatest self if you're not your greatest self.

And you don't bring that every day and force me to compete.

And if you're not trying to be better than me, then I'm not going to be my best self because iron sharpens iron.

So we definitely all understood that.

We checked our ego at the door.

And we just competed.

And we all undertook a growth mindset.

Pretty quickly.

Because usually when your ego's in the way, you're not open to criticism.

You're not open to coaching and corrections.

And I guess that's what you learn quick in football.

It's

you take the message and not the delivery of it.

You know what I mean?

You might be in a drill, dog tired, and your coach is cussing you out or he's in a meeting saying you did this effing wrong or whatever, and you kind of just have to internalize it, leave what's not serving you, and take the corrections back and improve the next day.

Awesome.

It went really well.