Vernon Davis talks about honoring the people who shaped him and why he never quits. He says failure is good and pressure is just a word. Being a selfless teammate, he argues, is how you actually grow.
What's that engine that's keeping you pursuing all the great things you're doing?
Understanding where I came from and how it started. Like every. Everything that created me, everything that I saw, the experiences that gave me life, you know, the ones that were here are no longer here, right? I do it for them.
But everybody doesn't have that burden, right? Like that thing. How do you deal with it, man? How do you do it?
I accepted it. I embraced it. I understood the importance of what it tells me is that it doesn't matter. You can't think about failing. Failure is a good thing. If you fail, you get back up, you dust yourself off, and it makes you better. It makes you stronger, makes you think about not doing that one thing again. Pressure is nothing. It's just a word. It's just something that's there. You can't even see it.
But you were also an ultimate teammate and team member as well, too, man.
So when I understood how important it was to be selfless and do things for the sake of the team, then I became a better. Not just a better player, but a better person overall because that shifted over to life. That gave me a lesson, and I'm extremely grateful for it.
You also have one of the best brilliant business minds that I know.
Understanding people, people can make or break you, man. It's like even when I look at the business, I don't look at the business, the product. I look at the people who I'm working with. Are they loyal? How. How they talk, you know, how they talk, how they operate, how they treat other people?
