4-Point Weekend #130
Hi everyone,
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoy your time with friends, family and loved ones. Please also enjoy this week’s 4 points!
1) Leaders need a philosophy
A Leader Has a Guiding Philosophy.
Football coach Bill Walsh took the 49ers from the worst team in the league to Super Bowl champions in just three years thanks to his “Standard of Performance” philosophy. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is known for his “Win Forever” philosophy—the winning mindset he aims to instill in his staff and players. The great coach John Wooden had his “Pyramid of Success” philosophy.
These philosophies and frameworks are critical as they codify the principles and rules by which a team will make decisions and operate on a day-to-day basis.
If you don’t have a philosophy, how do you expect to know what to do in tough situations? Or when things are confusing or complicated? Being reactive is never a position of strength. It is not a position a leader should find themselves in.
Source: Ryan Holiday
(P.S. I highly recommend looking into each of the above philosophies!)
2) This is water
This was a clip I shared in my very first 4-Point Weekend post. I try to re-listen to it a couple of times a year and suggest you do as well.
3) Emotion
I prize intensity and fear emotionalism. Consistency in high performance and production is a trademark of effective and successful organizations and those who lead them. Emotionalism destroys consistency.
-UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden
4) Quote of the week
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.”
-Turkish Novelist Elif Shafak
Thank you for your time and attention this week.
Much love,
Kyle
With the world in the the present predicament, the real threat of the New World Order, the absence of free speech, the snuffing out of news, newspapers, and free journalism, I resent the time, money, and human brain power that is going into sports. As for physical fitness I think we would be better off if we had been taught dancing throughout our school career. That would be more social, more community- minded, and it would be an activity we might enjoy even in extreme old age. Kyle Bergh has a good mind and he is a good writer. I would like to see him stretch out into the broader world beyond sports.