On completing passes, experimenting more, and being growth minded
July 25 | The 3-Point Play
BASKETBALL TIP
There is a simple way to beat any opponent: Complete your passes.
Good teams force other teams to get nervous and to try to throw passes they shouldn’t be throwing or to try to make shots that they can’t make.
If you concentrate on completing passes, especially against a good team that is pressuring, you won’t need to think about finding scoring opportunities. Complete passes will create them for you.
LEADERSHIP LESSON
“Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident.
What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of “Let’s just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.”
– Jim Collins
LIFE PRINCIPLE
“Many growth-minded people didn’t even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It’s ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it’s where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.”
– Carol Dweck
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