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Derek Jeter on Preparation

23 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube monologue (uploaded by Fortitude 365) in which Derek Jeter says his greatest discomfort is being unprepared. He argues that preparation makes situations "slow down" (easier to handle) while lack of preparation makes them "speed up," and that treating lower-stakes and high-stakes games the same way keeps performance consistent.

My biggest thing in life that makes me most uncomfortable is being unprepared. And that's in anything if you're unprepared. You hear athletes talk about game speeds up, slows down. Well, it slows down when you're prepared. Speeds up when you're unprepared. Right. So every time you're in a situation, I've already gone through it in my head. And if you have the same approach to a spring training game as you do a World Series game, nothing changes.