The 5 MAJOR Lessons I've Learned Through 100 Episodes

Foreign. Welcome to the Visionary Basil training Podcast. Appreciate you guys doing tuning in today. Apple Podcast, Spotify, Pandora, wherever other platforms you may be listening from, and of course, Everybody who's on YouTube. I appreciate you guys. This is episode 100, so if you are new, go ahead, hit that, like, button. Subscribe, because this is just the first 100, and man, it's. It's crazy to be at that 100 mark and it's been a little under, I guess, a little over. Oh, man. We started this April 2020, late April 2020, so finally hitting that 100 mark here. And there's a couple things I want to talk about, but first things first is I want to say thank you. Because if there wasn't people listening, then they wouldn't. We wouldn't be at 100. So I owe that to everybody who's tuned in, everybody who's supported, everybody who's left a review for me, everybody who has liked a video, left a comment, sent me a message with a question, or just saying, hey, I really enjoy the podcast. I really appreciate all of you guys. And, you know, it's been something I remember back when I started, I. I felt like there wasn't a lot of. Of basketball training podcasts specifically. And I also felt like there wasn't really anything for that on YouTube. And so I decided that I kind of wanted to change that and I wanted to really give players and trainers and coaches something that they could watch. And I hear all the time from people like, hey, you know, I always listen to your podcast when I'm driving to school or I'm driving to work or I'm driving to practice or whatever. And I wanted to create something that people could use to fill those spaces and hopefully make them better at basketball or. Or really at anything. Because, you know, I feel like where. Where this is really gone is like, it's been. What I've. What I've realized getting into this is that basketball mirrors life. I just saw Steve Kerr talk about in an interview the other day how the way that people play basketball mirrors who they are. So you can tell. You can tell who somebody is by watching them play. You can tell if they're a selfish person. You can tell if they have confidence in themselves. You can tell these things by watching somebody play basketball. Basketball mirrors life. And. And today we're going to talk about, kind of goes along with that. I just want to talk about the top five lessons that I've learned in my first 100 episodes. And I think this is going to apply to you Regardless of what you do, whether you're a player, whether you're a coach or a trainer, whether you do none of those things and you do something completely unrelated, I think these five lessons are something that you can take forward with you as well. And the first thing, and probably, I don't know if I'd say it's the most important one of the five, but if you don't do this, then the other five, the other four don't even matter. And lesson number one is just be willing to start. I remember when I first had the idea of the podcast, I had no idea how I was going to do that. I had no idea how to record a podcast. I had no idea what platforms I needed. I had no idea what equipment I needed. I had no idea any of that stuff. And on top of that, I didn't want to just do an audio podcast. I kind of figured that out like semi quickly. And then I was like, no, I want to do a video podcast. Like, I want. I want to have both. And that was where it was like, I had no idea what I was doing. There was not really any helpful articles or videos online to tell me how to do that. And so I kind of just had to figure it out and I kind of just had to be willing to go for it. Even though when I first started, I had this webcam I was using and it wasn't perfect, but I hear the term imperfect action all the time. Be willing to take imperfect action. I think that's really. That could be the other name for this lesson, is just be willing to take imperfect action. Be willing to look at something and say, you know what, this is not perfect. This could be better. But I'm not going to wait for it to be perfect. I'm just going to do it and then figure it out and adjust it on. On the, on the way. And. And that was really what I decided to do with this. And. And, you know, if you go back and watch my first episode, don't do that. It's not good. But if we go back and watch my first episode and you look at just the quality, you look at my ability to talk, it's all gotten better. And it all started from just my willingness to start that just, I'm going to start it, you know, I don't know everything. I don't know, but I'm going to be okay with not knowing everything. I'm just going to keep. I'm going to keep going and I'm going to start. And so being able to Take imperfect action, I think is really important. And the second thing I want to talk about, and it kind of goes along with this, but you will be bad at first. You're going to be bad at first. The only way to be better is to keep doing it right again. When I. When I look at my. My first few episodes, right, they were just not good. Quality wasn't good. I couldn't speak as well as I can now, and I wasn't as coherent. I look back and I'm like, I have some like hour and a half solo podcasts. And it wasn't because, I mean, some of them, you know, maybe I had that much information, but some of them were just because I didn't know how to coherently put things together. And that was where I've gotten better. But I only get to that point because I tried, right? Trial and error and messing up and looking at things and saying, okay, how can I make that better? And you don't ever get that opportunity if you don't mess it up in the first time. This is something I'm on with my players all the time. It's like, especially if we're doing something and they're struggling a lot, I'm like, look, this is right where we need to be. We need to be doing. This is where we have to be in this mode where we're messing up, where this is difficult, because this is where we're going to get better. If we don't have these mistakes, right? If we don't, if we don't fail a little bit, if it's not difficult, we're not going to know why, we're not going to have a reason to get better, and we're not going to know what to adjust to get better, okay? And it's the same thing with this. It's really the same exact thing. It's like if I don't go out and actually try and look bad and be bad at it at first, I'm never going to be able to be good at it. So it takes being bad at first to eventually be good. So that's the second thing. When you start something, it doesn't matter what it is, it can be trained. Like, when I started training, I look back at some stuff I was doing, I was not good, right? Some of the same stuff that, like, I look at now and I kind of laugh at was like, stuff I was doing because you're starting off, you don't know anything. But as you move forward, as you continue to be better and push yourself, then you start to adjust and you start to get better at it. But again, that only happens when you start and you're willing to, okay, I'm not going to be perfect. I might even be bad at this, but I'm going to do it anyway. That's the second thing is you're going to be bad at first, but the only way to be good is to keep on doing it. The third thing that I've learned through these first 100 episodes is that to teach something is to learn twice, right? So the value in teaching something, and this, I think, has been such a game changer for me because I look at some of these episodes, right, where maybe I'll read something or I'll listen to a podcast on something, or I'll have a conversation with somebody. I'll read a book on something, and I want to talk about it on the podcast. I have to be able to not only know the information myself, but. But I have to be able to explain it coherently. I have to be able to make sure that it's understandable, and I have to be able to. To process it and then spit it back out in a way that everybody can understand what I'm saying, right? So it forces me to not only have that understanding, but also understand how to explain it, which is essentially teaching it twice, right? Because the way that I might process something might not be the same way everybody else is going to start to. I have to take that into account, okay? So whenever I. Let's say it's an episode on skill acquisition, I might understand that. But do I understand it to a point where I can actually explain it to somebody else who might have no idea what that even is? They might not have read a book on it the way I have? You know, that's the thing. I have conversations with people all the time and shout out to all my guests that I've had through these first 100 episodes, that's. That's been another big thing for me. You know, I just had Tyler Clark on last week, shout out to tc, Danny Cooper, have had him on Danny Metzer. Guys like. Guys like Tyler LeClaire and my guy Will Will over skill training. And so I really appreciate those guys, but those guys, like, I have conversations with some of them about this, about these sorts of things, and they've all read about it. They've all done the same stuff I've done. So it's not. I can have a conversation with them. It's very easy. But when I'm speaking to somebody who hasn't read the same stuff that we've read? Who hasn't had the same conversations? Am I able to explain it then? And that's where trying to teach something, I think is really, really important. And that's why a lot of times, like, again, going back to just training, it's like, I love having opportunities for my players to be able to lead something or teach something, because it means that they don't. That not only do they know it, but they have to know it to a point where they can actually verbalize it. Right. Or demonstrate it to somebody else. And I think that's a very, very valuable thing because it shows them. It shows a certain level of mastery over something. So really, me having to kind of put myself in those positions to teach things has made me so much better because I really have had to internalize those things and really have a firm understanding of what it actually is. So to teach is to learn twice. And I think it's really important to put yourself in a position to have to help people and teach things, because it forces you to really know what you're talking about, which is obviously going to make you a lot better when it comes to actually applying that concept. So think. Third thing I learned is that to teach is to learn twice. The fourth lesson that I've learned through these first 100 episodes is that pressure and expectation will push you to new levels, so you need to chase after them. And this kind of goes back to that last point. There's a lot of times where I'll get requests for a certain episode or I'll read about something. I'll be like, man, this is really, really good. And then I'm like, man, can I even make an episode on this? You know, like, do I. Am I even. Do I even have the ability to coherently talk about this and explain this and help people learn this? And that was challenging. That was really hard at first for me to be able to do that. And that's pressure, right? But again, that pressure forces me to say, okay, you know what? You got to make sure you know this so you can explain it. And it just makes. It forced me to be better. And again, that goes along with. With everything that you'll do as a. As a basketball player, as a trainer, as a coach. But, you know, if. With whatever. With whatever it is that you do, having those expectations on you, that pressure, it's not always enjoyable, but it's. It's so necessary if you want to be great. And I. I still think about, like, the Best times of my life have been those times where I felt like there's been expectation on me. I felt pressure to, you know, deliver on something, and it forces you to really rise up to the occasion right there. Okay, so now it becomes about four finding opportunities to put myself in that position where I have to deliver, right? Where people are watching, where there's eyes on me, where, you know, people are counting on me to do something. And that's where I think the, the most growth is found is in those moments. So, you know, I think it's very easy to stay in your comfort zone. It's very easy to just do what's. What's normal and do what's. What you're used to doing. And I think, though, if you find opportunities to push yourself and be willing to step out of that comfort zone, it's going to make you so much better. And that's a big thing that I've learned not just through the podcast, but through everything else I've done in the past, you know, two plus years now. It's been really, really big for me to be able to look at myself and say, hey, you've got to, you've got to, like, you're too comfortable right now. You have to find ways to branch out a little bit and, and, and ramp that pressure up a little, because that's where you're going to push yourself forward right there. So fourth lesson, pressure and expectations will push you to new levels. So chase after them. And then the fifth thing that I've learned through these first 100 episodes, and I would say this is probably the biggest one, is that you're never going to make it. You never will, right? And I look at, you know, where I started from and where I'm at now. I look at the growth of certain things and I'm like, you know, I remember thinking back to like, okay, two months into the podcast, if I could see where I'm at now, you know, I. There would be like a dream come true. But here I am right now, and it just feels like, you know, this is, this is where I'm at, right? Not that I'm not grateful for what I have. I'm very grateful that I'm at episode 100. I have, you know, however many subscribers, however many followers, I'm very thankful for all of that. But at the end of the day, there's never a point where you're going to make it. And that can come from an achievement perspective, but can also come from just a straight up knowledge perspective, right? You feel like, okay, you read enough and you learn enough, and all of a sudden you've made it. And that's kind of a trap that I've had to make myself avoid is like, listen, man, the more that you learn, it just opens you up to learn even more because now you understand these concepts. So how do we branch out from that and get even deeper into that? And the more I do it, the more I see, like, oh, man, I don't even have, like, I'm not even close to there, right? I'm not even close to being where I could be. Right? And I think that's the best place to be is in that state of constant learning. And again, not to say that you are ungrateful for what you have or. Or that you're. You're upset with what you have, but putting yourself in a position to say, like, hey, I can always be better. It doesn't matter how far I've come or where I'm at, I can always be better at whatever it is that I do. I think there's a certain level of. A certain level of humility that you need to have if you want to continue to level up and be great. Because if you're not getting better at something, you're getting worse at it, right? Because even if you've acquired all this information, it. If you don't do anything to continue to improve, then you're just going to go downhill. You're going to start forgetting stuff. You're going to become, you know, a lot more sloppy with what you do, with what you know. So it's got to be constantly in that state of trying to get better. And, you know, for me, I think that's been, again, a big area of growth and one of the biggest lessons I've learned throughout my time with this podcast. And, you know, I kind of opened this up as like a Q and a shout out to my guy, Josh Smiler, for asking the question. He said, said, what was the biggest thing that you've learned throughout these first 100 episodes? And that was kind of what. What stemmed this episode was just, okay, I'll give you my. My top five lessons that I've learned. So, you know, again, going through it is just be willing to start. Number two, you will be bad at first, but the only way to be good is to keep doing it. Number three, to teach is learned twice. Number four, pressure and expectations will push you to new levels. Chase after them. And number five, you will never make it. Those are the five biggest things that I'VE learned. I've learned so much more. Like I, I mean it's crazy to think about the how, how much better I feel I've gotten at this and how much more confident I am in what I do now. And again that that all comes because of the support that you guys have given me. So I really do appreciate it. And you know, as always, I always welcome your guys input. I always welcome suggestions, I always welcome topics that you guys want me to cover. So if you guys have anything specific for me, you can always leave a comment if you're on YouTube or if you want to go on Instagram. DM me @vision Driven Basketball, leave a comment on Instagram, whatever. Doesn't matter to me. But again, I really do appreciate the support. And so if you are on YouTube make sure you drop a like subscribe if you are new, if you're on Apple podcast, leave a review for me and Spotify as Well. And again, 100 episodes in. I really appreciate every single one of you guys. Who's listening, who supported, who shared this podcast with anybody. It's really, really awesome. And again, like I said, I never feel like I've made it, but I am so appreciative of where I'm at right now and the people who are supporting me. You guys are awesome. And again, all that said, I will talk to you guys soon. Peace.