587: Josh Martin, part 1: How to Reach the Ivy League and the NFL When You Start Late and Unprepared
Regular listeners know I love talking with professional athletes. They open themselves to failure every time they compete. They often make incredible feats look so simple and natural, we forget the years of dedication and effort that made it possible. Whether you want to play professional sports or not, you can adopt from them to reach your potential, which is one of my definitions of competition.
I love talking to them because they share what happened behind the scenes. Almost always, as with Josh Martin, it means hard work for a long time, but that view is too simple. What enabled working so hard? They aren’t gluttons for punishment, nor automatons. What’s their mindset? What’s their physical attitude?
Josh shares these things from behind the scenes: how he started not playing football and not doing well in school to playing at Columbia, then the NFL. It wasn’t easy. He failed over and over, didn’t fit in, struggled academically, and struggled athletically. Listen to hear what carried him through.
Since he lives in Brooklyn, we recorded in person, one of my first since the pandemic, which makes the conversation more friendly (my apartment looks a lot smaller with an NFL linebacker in it).
Today he’s an entrepreneur, which we reach at the end, and you can learn more at his home page.