Something For Everybody
Stop Being Average: The Real Blueprint for Absolute Discipline - #480
28 Apr 2026
Chapter 1: What personal reflections does Dre Baldwin share in his introduction?
Dre, welcome to the show. I'm excited to be here, Aaron. How you doing?
Chapter 2: How does Dre Baldwin navigate parenting in the digital age?
I am fantastic. And I'm going to, you know, ask you that question, but I want to try and ask it in a little bit more intentional way with a little bit more conviction behind it.
Chapter 3: What lessons from sports can be applied to parenting?
So, Dre, how are you doing, man? Like, for real, how are you doing?
I'm doing great. I am excited to be here on this conversation and excited to get into whatever you got for me.
Chapter 4: How did Dre transition from a professional athlete to an entrepreneur?
Yeah.
Is there a time in your life where you may have answered that question in a different way? Where I wasn't doing great? Yeah. There have been plenty of times I wasn't doing great, but I probably wouldn't have told somebody if they would have asked me.
Chapter 5: What role does discipline play in achieving success in sports and life?
If I'm dealing with something, I usually deal with it internally, not externally or publicly processed.
Has that always been that way, or is that how you grew up, or is that from sports or your family or just a masculinity culture? Where does that come from?
It's definitely not masculinity culture because there was there was no masculinity culture when I was growing up. So I at least I didn't know about it. So I think it's something that I've always been as long as I've been conscious about, you know, the internal state and internal processing, which I say since I was maybe 18, maybe high school.
So as long as I've been conscious about it, it's always been something I'd rather ignore.
deal with things internally if it has something to do with me then uh process it publicly and tell the world because you know who was i going to tell what they're going to do about it that's generally my mindset that's what it's been yeah same mindset current you currently have or is anything tweaked about it um nowadays you can go to the internet you can search you can hop on an ai bot but other than that uh pretty much the same
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Chapter 6: How does consistency contribute to personal growth?
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Chapter 7: What is the connection between confidence and discipline?
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So the kids nowadays, like when we were younger, at least for me, it was like, you know, the only reason I wanted to be good at sports or get in good shape was hopefully that some girls would talk to me. At least that was it for me, you know? And then like,
All the other stuff like winning championships and getting to go play pro or going to college was like a byproduct because girls thought it was cool. Then eventually you get into the mindset of like, oh, I like doing this thing. It makes me feel good. You know, I have something to work towards. It's a vision, all that stuff. At least that was for when I was younger.
And I see that a lot with some of the younger athletes now that I currently work with. But for like people outside of the sports world, The internet is like where they get everything. The chat can be their girlfriend, can be their therapist, can be their best friend. They never have to leave their room. It's quite a frightening thing. You know, we both have young children.
So I think about that like a lot in terms of how do we keep them off the internet? What will it be like in 10 years?
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Chapter 8: What insights does Dre provide about the realities of entrepreneurship?
You know, so then I think back to some of the principles that you teach. It's like, that's probably why they're so universal and they can apply to so many different domains, but no real question there. Just anything you got to riff off that.
Yeah.
yeah and as far as the kids go and i know that's a big thing for you right now myself as well with the kids it's really just keeping them off the devices because you're a generation or generation younger than me but in my generation we didn't have devices so you didn't have to keep the kids off it because there wasn't one it was just watching tv and playing video games but if it was nice outside we wanted to go outside whereas now
The kids who are, let's say, 15 or 16 now, there's a bunch of them who go outside, but there's a bunch who probably would rather stay in-house and become a YouTuber or a streamer or be on the Internet. So the challenge for you and I as parents now, as our kids grow up, and the Internet is probably going to be even more robust. And it's not even going to be the Internet.
It's going to be bigger than just the Internet. Internet is old. It's going to be the tools, the tools that they can use. There'll be so many more of them, but we are definitely, my wife and I are going to keep our kid off of the devices as long as possible until he develops as a person, develops himself as a person, then he can get a device.
Eventually he's going to have one, but we don't want him to be glued to it because I've known parents, people who I know, know, like, and trust who they would just throw their kids on an iPad when they needed 10 minutes of break. And the thing is, the kids grew up glued to that device. And I think it affects them in some way. It doesn't mean they can't turn out to be good adults as they grow up.
But I don't want to have my kid thrown on that device all the time, even though as a parent, there are times where you like, I need 10 minutes of quiet. Let me just put this kid in his iPad because otherwise they're not going to leave you alone. They're not going to be quiet. So I can understand it. And there was another thing that you said that I forgot what it was, but we'll come back to it.
Yeah, like before I became a dad and I used to go to a restaurant, let's say when my wife and I didn't have a kid and I would see like a family at the dinner table and everyone would be on their device, I would be so judgmental about it. I'd be like, why the fuck are they doing that? Why can't they just get off their phones and shit?
Like it must, it'd be so easy because me with that, not at that point, not being a dad, not knowing it. And now I'm like, have a six month old and I'm like, oh, I get it. I can make the rationale now very much easier as to why I would throw the iPad in front of my,
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