What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
The best advice I've ever received has been to maintain a positive attitude and not assume anything. Transcript: "Hey Greg, thanks for asking the question. What is the best advice you've ever received? I don't know if this stuff is the best advice I've ever see, but to the stick out my mind. The first is, I was actually at a casino and a dealer, a Pit Boss in the dealer. Gave me a button that said, attitude is everything and so that, you know, it's funny. I was like, attitude is everything they're like, yeah. You like, they're like, man, you're like, you're super palsy of the people that table love having you around. We enjoy having you here and you're losing pretty big and show. I was losing pretty big but, you know, I wasn't going to get me down because if I'm there, if my my view is, if I'm there to enjoy myself, then I can die. And I'm going to get upset about losing a couple bucks. Then I obviously shouldn't be risking that. But to me attitude really means anything. You can pack your day going to pack any other people's days. I really think that having a positive attitude. Really, really give you get yourself in a better mood. It allows you to better workouts. Brings other people around you up. Up and people just generally want to be around you when you have positive attitude. The second thing that I think is very simple but I think effective is don't assume anything never assume anything whether or not you run into an opponent, you don't assume that you going to be them, you don't, you're going to lose to them. Don't assume you can't accomplish something that you want to accomplish. Don't assume that that person is have your best interest in mind. Don't assume that person doesn't have your best interests in mind. I think. You have to respond react and then go from there. So those are two things that I received as advice that I enjoy and try to live each day. So I hope that helps"
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Bryan Doo
Strength & Conditioning Coach
Hey Greg, thanks for asking the question. What is the best advice you've ever received? I don't know if this stuff is the best advice I've ever see, but to the stick out my mind. The first is, I was actually at a casino and a dealer, a Pit Boss in the dealer. Gave me a button that said, attitude is everything and so that, you know, it's funny. I was like, attitude is everything they're like, yeah. You like, they're like, man, you're like, you're super palsy of the people that table love having you around. We enjoy having you here and you're losing pretty big and show. I was losing pretty big but, you know, I wasn't going to get me down because if I'm there, if my my view is, if I'm there to enjoy myself, then I can die. And I'm going to get upset about losing a couple bucks. Then I obviously shouldn't be risking that. But to me attitude really means anything. You can pack your day going to pack any other people's days. I really think that having a positive attitude. Really, really give you get yourself in a better mood. It allows you to better workouts. Brings other people around you up. Up and people just generally want to be around you when you have positive attitude. The second thing that I think is very simple but I think effective is don't assume anything never assume anything whether or not you run into an opponent, you don't assume that you going to be them, you don't, you're going to lose to them. Don't assume you can't accomplish something that you want to accomplish. Don't assume that that person is have your best interest in mind. Don't assume that person doesn't have your best interests in mind. I think. You have to respond react and then go from there. So those are two things that I received as advice that I enjoy and try to live each day. So I hope that helps
Jesse Puts
🇳🇱 World Champion 50 freestyle SCM
What is the best advice you've ever received? Well, when I was a younger swimmer, I was always super nervous before, important meets really, really nervous. And then my one of my coaches told me before a race. Why be so nervous. Just go out there and enjoy it racing. Should be fun. Get rid of the. You have to do this, you have to do that. Just go out there and have fun, right? Swimming fast and it will all work out by itself and as simple as its it, as it sounds that help me, get rid of the the bad nerves. And just all the important means afterwards, I was just super relaxing, super chill because it just wanted to have fun and doing what I always did during during training and its really simple advice but it's really helped me.
Dan O’Brien
🇺🇸 Decathlete: '96 Olympic 🥇, 3x World 🥇
Greg Bennett wants to know the best piece of advice I ever received. So, the best piece of advice I ever received was from Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Believe it or not. I qualified for the 1988 Olympic trials in Indianapolis, and I just spent a half a year at Spokane Community College qualified for the trials. And there, I find myself one day before the competition starts in Jackie Joyner-Kersee. And her husband. Bob kersee are on the track and I had never met Jackie. Before I Over and introduced myself and got a chance to talk to them for 15 or 20 minutes. They were so gracious to take the time out, but I told him was like I'd do the decathlon, but I also long jump on my outstanding hurdler and I knew that if I could just hurt a little bit faster, if I could just long jump a little bit farther, I wouldn't end, I wouldn't have to do the decathlon. The decathlon was difficult, I didn't love it. Wasn't my first choice, but in 15 to 20 minutes that I had talked to Bob kersee and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. They convinced me that the decathlon was where I needed to be That was a 1988. I remember going home from those Olympic trials, I didn't have a chance of making the team. I injured myself halfway through the first day, but I remember being on the plane directly and thinking to myself, I'm now a decathlete. I'm going to stop, trying to get out of it. I'm going to commit to it. 100%, three years later, I was a world champion. So the best piece of advice I ever got was from Jackie Joyner-Kersee and her husband. Bob, thank you.
Joshua Watson
🇦🇺 Olympic🥈- World championship (S.C)🥇
Hi, Greg, how are you? Thanks very much for your question on. What's the best advice I ever received? And for me, it was when I was young, I took up swimming when I was about seven years of age and I was just really fortunate to have a good squad. Built around me a great coach and as a 9 10 11 year-old, I was ranked pretty highly in the country. And then as a twelve-year-old, I was one of these skinny little kids that didn't develop, and a lot of people that were around my level and Below My Level just went straight past me and Our members of 13 year old sitting in the grandstands at the national H titles after being in the top two or three of the year before to being outside the top 40. And I just remember crying in my coaches lap for about half an hour and I just remember him leaning over me and Whispering whispering in my ear. Josh. Nobody remembers an age group champion and I didn't really understand it at the time but it was something he said to me almost Every session, certainly weekly, he just reminded me that if you keep doing enough of the right things that skills-based things, I was a hard trainer, I was always looking to improve. If I kept doing those things it would be a Level Playing Field and sport is such a fantastic teacher of delayed gratification. But I've got a specific story, you know, which is a coach that was mature enough and understood what would happen to me, as I caught up, physically, to the rest of those kids. And as a Fourteen-year-old. I came fourth in the country and has 15 16 17 year old. I was the national age group Champion, so patience and delay gratification. That's his that's the best advice that I've ever been given.
Marko Malvela
5x Olympic coach - Finland
What is the best advice I've received? I think that the best result received advice has been from my mentor. You regarding earlier days, back in early 90s. And he said to me, when I asked, what should I do, how to type latter my career? And he said that, well, he hasn't planned his career. He's kind of stumbled into the things and reacted on that. So that's been a good advice. So I'm not taking care of so much and worried about Out what will come in a future but instead stay on a moment and try to recognize those sparkling star moments that could somehow help me advance my career and find interesting things.
Benjamin Kessel
Founder - Priority Fitness CSCS USAT Level 2
Best advice I've ever received is, do not follow the crowd in life, don't follow the crowd, and what that means is, think for yourself, make decisions that are in your best interest. If you follow the crowd, your disempowering, your actions, you're not critically thinking about what's best for you. Now, if you don't follow the crowd, you can take a breath and say what decision. Do I need to make? That's in my best interest and now you're creating a sense of agency and you can make a And that's based on your own personal convictions. And once you do that, you can take responsibility for your decisions, which is one of most important things because regardless of the result of your decisions whether it's a positive or quote, unquote negative thing, You can learn and grow because you're taking responsibility or taking ownership of your actions, something that you can lose if you follow the crowd and you start blaming the crowd. Now, this advice was given for my father, quick little story about my father, born in Europe 1942 during World War Two, middle child older brother younger sister. We were Jews Escaping The Wrath of Nazi Germany. And after the war, we wouldn't my family's putting DP camps in Germany. And they came to America in 1949, my breath, my dad is 7 Soon, as he got to America became a shoeshine boy, going to bars, shining shoes 7 years old 10:00 at night and make it and making some money. And the biggest thing that he told me, besides not following the crowd, is that having the opportunity to make decisions having that freedom is a huge privilege and having the opportunity to fail and grow from that a huge privilege. And it's a shame to let that opportunity slot. So we're all For most of us who have this opportunity or incredibly lucky. You have to seize that