Ryan Holiday had lunch with Manu Ginobili and came away questioning whether greatness requires extreme sacrifice. We assume elite performers like Tom Brady gave up everything, but Holiday wonders if that story is overblown.
It's almost easier to be great than it is to be good. I had lunch with Manu Ginobili, who just got inducted in the Hall of Fame this month. I don't want to say he's a regular person because that sounds like that almost minimizes it. But the point is, we tend to think that to be that good requires some fundamental tradeoffs about what kind of person you are and what your day-to-day life looks like. Tom Brady, right, comes back to football. You can't walk away. And it may well cost him his marriage. Right. And people see that and they go, that's what it takes. I'm not sure that that is what it takes.
