Pressure helps you perform- if you ever went to University and slacked off in a class you know this. The real learning Grover is talking about means absorbing everything you can and then trusting your inner self, instinctively and without thinking. His clientele includes Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, Charles Barkley and many more legends. If anything, it’s the opposite: Whether you’re a pro athlete or a guy running a business or driving a truck or going to school, it’s simple.

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When there was no school and both my parents were working, he'd take me with him; I was five years old the first time I saw my father dismantle a corpse. Never even mentions the idea of women cleaners, probably because he only works with male athletes (at least that’s what it seems like? While I like his emphasis on "never quit" and being relentless in general, I think it's possible to do that while being values driven, caring for, and developing those around you.

It is a major compliment to Tim that at our executive debrief he was unanimously awarded the ‘greatest fit’ for the impact and relevance of his message.

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Have you ever wondered what it is that separates people who seem to win at everything in life from "everyone else"? It is a compilation of insights into the mentality and guts of World Class Athletes who have found unparalleled success by trusting in their own instinct to get to where they want to be – win championships, dominate and be the best in the league.Excellence is lonely… Most people are afraid to climb that high, because if they fail, the fall will kill them. Cleaners are the top of the top, “Closers” are great performers, and “Coolers” are very good performers.

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Tim Grover presents it as a fact that every highly successful or highly driven individual has -without exception, he says- a dark side. I'm 100% certain that if you bring me into any situation, I'm going to have a positive impact on you. It requires no explanation, analysis, rationale, or excuse; it's just a simple statement that leaves no double You can look at it from every angle, flip it over, slice it up, smash it with an ax. Tim Grover says a Cooler waits for the instructions, waits to see what all the others are doing, and then follows the leader. There isn't much to learn here, other than Grover would like you to follow all of the rote cliches: dig deeper, try harder, don't bend to the norms.

They’re not going away, but now you’re controlling how you feel about them, instead of allowing them to make you feel nervous. This state of mind can give you the strength to achieve, to survive, to overcome, to be strong when others are not.