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Who am I? A question so many ask themselves. #identity #nfl #anthonytrucks #mindset

23 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Anthony Trucks on what happens when your career ends and you lose the role that defined you. He uses a tree-and-fruit metaphor: you're not your job, you're the tree. The fruit falls, but you remain.

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There's this concept of the fruit of our labor. Football. I'm the fruit. I'm the apple. Football was this amazing thing. And so I was football, and I was his fruit. And when the fruit fell off the tree, the apple can stay for a little bit. I could hang for a couple years and do my thing, but after a while, that apple rots, you know, and. And you feel rotten. If you can't play the game or do the job or you sold the business and you don't have that business anymore, Whatever it is that a business failed, it's like this, who am I? And so what I realized is my entire life beyond the game, I had fallen apart in all areas of my life because I didn't realize one genuinely true concept, which was I was never the apple or the fruit. I We have always been the tree.