Book Review: W1NNING: The Unforgiving Race To Greatness By Tim Grover & Shari Wenk

W1NNING is a fantastic book! It is written by Tom Grover, who was Michael Jordan’s personal coach for 15 years and Kobe Bryant’s coach for 8. He helped those men win a total of 8 NBA Championships. He gets winning and what it takes to win better than most.

I got 3 big things from this book:

1. W1NNING is politically incorrect. It’s hard, tough, nasty, unforgiving and relentless. If you want to win, you have to be that way too.

2. W1NNING takes all of you. If you want to win, you have to give it everything you have. Anything less means that you won’t win.

3. W1NNING is not a marathon. It’s spring that never ends. People are always telling you “it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Slow down. Pace yourself.” Bullshit! Winning is a full on sprint that never ends. If you want to win, you have to speed up when other people are slowing down.