Jake Humphrey
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They're constantly looking for information they don't have.
But Usain Bolt, let's talk about those two.
Usain Bolt's coach once said to him, you're going to have to learn how to lose before you can learn how to win.
And that was a totally confusing concept for Usain Bolt.
But he went from being a guy who was so nervous in his first race that he could barely tie his shoelaces together because he was shaking so much to winning an Olympic gold,
without even bothering to tie up his shoelaces because he was so confident.
And that ability to realize, I know that if I push myself to the limit and I lose, then it can happen.
But if I push myself to the limit is the only way that I'm actually going to win this race.
And I think back to Matthew McConaughey, it's kind of an identical lesson said in a very different way where he said to us, just don't leave crumbs.
You know, the great George Bernard Shaw poem where he says, I want to be thoroughly used up when I'm gone.
that is how these people are living their sparks of light in the room their thermostats their givers of energy they change how people around them feel they're optimists no matter how bad a day can be they believe that tomorrow is going to be a great day so they get out of bed and they go again they're kind of like they're playing the lottery all the time they're buying tickets every single day and it only takes one lottery ticket to pay out once a year
And you're doing pretty well.
I think it's sad, you know, Anthony, that we stop exploring at some point in our lives.
There was a bit of research done where researchers went into a classroom of three-year-olds and said, put your hands up if you can sing.
And every hand went in the air.
And then walked into a classroom of 13-year-olds, asked them the same question and two hands went up.
Because everyone added, well, put your hands in, put your hand up if you can sing.
Well, they assumed that's what they were asking.
And I think one of the problems with life is that we assume that if we're not good at something, then we need to stop doing it.
Or there's a moment where we stop exploring or seeing what's next.