Whether you are a current athlete, an ex-athlete who dreads thinking about squats or suicides or a girlfriend who watches Sunday football with your boyfriend for extra brownie points, you gotta respect how thee grind to become a superior athlete, correlates to every facet of success in any shape or form.
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[The average 22-year-old male is, as we speak, staring out the front window of his fraternity house, a beer buzz in his ears, wishing he could stay for 3 more years. But what of the achievers? The thousands of motivated 22-year-olds out there applying to med schools, eyeing MBAs, or maybe busting ass in a meaningful (low-pay) internship? All of those talented, brass-ring-grabbing men have much to be proud of and yet still have to polish up résumés with nothing on them but test scores and student-government presidencies.
We're not saying LeBron James is remarkable for his "God-given talent," as he calls it. Many men are blessed with professional-grade abilities. We're saying that to take what he's been given and invest it in something greater, to operate at an elevated level among his peers, and to do so in the face of world-class pressure and media expectations before he could even take a legal drink, is remarkable. And it's worth further study.
"I grew up and had a sense of direction because I made my mind up early," says James. He describes this fast maturity as a two-stage event. The first came on the court in eighth grade: his virgin dunk. "Every year at our middle school we had a teachers-versus-the-basketball-team game," he says. "I'd never tried one before. I just went up there and got one down. Bam! Everybody went crazy."
"Commitment," he says. "Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?"]- MENS HEALTH
