Sam Parr

It's the talent times the, uh, the ability to exploit the talent.

And so, you know, there's nobody up the top who's just totally talentless.

So, you know, didn't, they didn't get there with zero intensity.

So for example, with Matt HPA, he was a, you know, he's a small white guy who basically was a, a, you know, bench guy at Michigan state basketball.

which is like the most hard-nosed, grittiest college basketball team and program under Tom Izzo.

And so he even said it during his talk.

He was like, look, if you guys saw me on the court today, I'm not the most talented guy, but I've always been this mentality of I'll outwork you.

And I wanted to clarify one thing.

So it's never one or the other.

So when I say intensity is a strategy, that doesn't mean they don't have any strategy or vision.

It means all of one or the other wouldn't work.

So if you're all vision, no walk,

right?

You're not down on the floor at Target getting the stuff out from under the shelf.

Like, that's not going to get you anywhere.

If you're only restocking the shelves and you have no vision, you have no key insight, it's also going to get nowhere.

It's the combination that makes you dangerous.

And so, for example, the guy who does it with board games, Ilan, who came on the podcast, he had the right vision at the beginning, which was we're going to make games and the game is not fun.

the game helps the players be fun to each other, right?

So you got the right big idea, which was how do we make games where the game itself is not fun, but the game makes the players fun.