Ownership of Development 🔑

Hi, 

Hopefully you all have had a great week, and celebrated the holidays with the people you care for most! 

This week, Trey and I switched it up a bit, Trey interviewed me. 

The purpose of this podcast is not just to talk about Trey’s career, the purpose is to explore the lessons that are obvious in sport and less obvious in life. 

Give it a listen here:

So here is what we covered: 

We talked a bit about my story, how to perform when you are “not prepared”, and general life lessons that I learned through coaching and running at the college level. 

But the thing I wanted to go over today is this idea: ownership of development translates to high value members of a company. 

One thing Trey and I have in common from our early development was that we didn’t have anyone who could give us a blueprint for success. There was no indication of the key things to do in order to get to the next level. 

So, what we had to do was take complete ownership of our path. For me it looked like getting up every morning at 5am and going for a 4-6 mile run before school. For Trey it looked like figuring out injury recovery and drilling out things he thought he would use. 

On a deeper level what was happening was very entrepreneurial. 

There was a key problem. A problem that I assume a lot of you are working through as well: How do I get to the next level? 

What happens is you can spend all of your time trying to logic your way through the problem, or in the other scenarios logic yourself out of the problem. 

All entrepreneurs do is identify a problem, create a solution, convince people their solution is the right one, and then sell it to them. 

That’s it. That is the whole thing. 

All of these other things you see are just the things they do to identify problems, convince you that you either have the problem or need their solution, and then selling it. 

As an athlete, there are a lot things that we try to implement to get us to the other side of our development, but when they don’t work, who do we look to? 

The person who sold us the solution or ourselves? 

This is the core of what it means to live an atypical life. Taking full ownership of your development, applying new techniques to get a new advantage, and coming out the other side a better version of yourself. 

When you make the self better everything else follows. 

Hope you enjoy!

Kyle