How Michael Jordan Made His Millions

Your enthusiasm. I know it's easy to be enthusiastic about things that you love. It's easy to be enthusiastic about things that are easy, right? But it's almost so like what I tell my kids. And not to digress, but here's what I tell my kids. I said, it's easy to be happy. It's easy to be polite. It's easy to be in a good mood when everything's going right. Who can't do that? Where true winners emerge is when they can do it with a headache. I had a line that someone said that, you know, true professionals, true athletes will do it when they're injured, will play when they're injured, will play with a headache. You know, Michael Jordan, whether you know who Michael Jordan was, the greatest basketball player to live, you know, in that final game when they played Utah and I had the chance to be friends with Michael and go to dinner with him and getting that story firsthand. He was up the. The true story is he was up at one o' clock in the morning, stressed about the big game and he was starving and he called and ordered pizza. He was in Park City, Utah, and he got the pizza and he doesn't know if the pizza was bad. It sat all day. It was the only place still open. He eats his pizza, he wakes up, next day, it's the final game of the NBA Finals, the biggest game. They're tied, three threes. The first person to get the four wins, wins. And he's waking up, puking, fever, sick headache. And he still went and played. If you remember that game, if you're watching, if you don't know anything I'm talking about just, you watch that game with a towel on his head. He's sitting on the sidelines, sweat pouring off his face before he even started. He's laying on his back every time out, every quarter change, every time he could get out, and he still played. And that's kind of the way you have to create the enthusiasm muscle, the persuasive muscle. It's easy to be persuasive. When everything's easy, when you can do it, when things aren't going good, is when you go to the next level.