Insights from Coach Michael Burt on Pursuing Greatness and Activating Your Prey Drive
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Why does Michael Burt say he can't retire?
A lot of people will ask me questions like, why do you do so much? Where you're at right now, this is massive. You've grown so much. I was like, yeah, but I've done it. Like, if I don't pursue more, I die inside. I'm a spiritual guy too, you know, but I can't find anywhere in the Bible where it says retire. A dog has a prey drive, and that's the animal's ability to stalk, capture, and kill prey. Humans have this drive. I went to a guy who had like world-class hunting dogs. And I said, tell me when the dog is most motivated. He said, when he knows he gets to go hunting.
Yes.
Not when he captures it. The retirement was made up by the government. And they're not very good at making up concepts. Clearly. The word retire means to be taken out of use. That's what it means.
This one's luck. I let the pain inspire me. I put my all in everything I'm doing. Up until it's done, I'm me for the entirety. I put in overtime. I be working. Just know I'm a gopher, man, because I earned it. They watching. I know it's time. I confirmed it. The whole society determined. The time has come.
What's going on, everyone? We're back with another episode of The Determined Society. Today I have with me an amazing guest, Coach Michael Burt. He's well-known in the coaching industry. He's just an overall amazing entrepreneur, great dude. In fact, back in the day, he won so many state championships as a basketball coach, and we're going to get to that today, but really a great man, founder of the Greatness Factory, and best-selling author of multiple books. So I can't say enough about Michael Burt, but without further ado, man, welcome to the show. Thank you. Honored to be here, man. Proud of you and your work ethic. And just tell me about your cadence and your rhythm and just like you chose a naming point. You stuck with it. And that's why I say long obedience in the same direction. I love that. You said that out there. I'm like, dang. That's actually a book title.
Eugene Peterson was a pastor that wrote a book called Long Obedience in the Same Direction. Long Obedience in the Same Direction. Yes. Discipline, man. You mentioned out there, discipline, the root is to be a disciple of something. Yeah. Yeah. It's so funny because like, you know, when I started everything, It's with an iPhone and a car. Yeah. And then it turned into in-person, or not in-person, no, in the house, in the den. And then it started to materialize. And like you said, long obedience. Yeah. Long obedience. I mean, Jeff Colvin wrote a book many years ago called Talent is Overrated. Mm-hmm. And the argument in the book, which I subscribe to, is that when you see people who are really good at something, the tendency is to believe they were just naturally more gifted. Mm-hmm. OK, of course, the truth is the book goes into people that were great that started. They found their voice early in life.
Mozart was playing music at two. You know, so and so went to work with their dad at 11. I mean, I could show you when I was in Nashville and I saw Taylor Swift at 13 years old singing to fifty five thousand people. Beautiful. OK. By the time she's 33, that's 20 years old. of long obedience. I started coaching when I was 15. I was a head coach at 22, right? You see, so it's like, I'd really been coaching. So when I started at 15, by the time I retired at 31, I'd really been in that business for 16 years. So that is a long obedience of just, and in my life, I've been coaching, really literally coaching people for 33 years. It's crazy because, you know, we look at you and all the success that you've had, right? Yeah. Best-selling author, what was it, seven state championships? Yep. A school went seven of nine over a cycle of time. And had previously never won one, right? On 30 years. On 30 years. So all these amazing accomplishments, very successful executive coach, right? Best-selling author.
How does Coach Burt define 'prey drive' in humans?
When people come across that, the first inclination is, like you said, it's just like, maybe he's more talented than me. Or, man, that happened overnight. It didn't, right? Everything that you have going on today, I can look at you, right? Because I'm new in the space. I'm, what, four years in? I'm like, when you sit out there, and I know the number.
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