One who sweats more in training bleeds less in war. I’m going to repeat that again so you can really think about it. One who sweats more in training bleeds less in war. And so by getting up early while the rest of the world is asleep, you’re doing your training, you’re preparing yourself for a fantastic day. I’ve worked with a lot of NBA players and NFL players and professional athletes from around the world, and one thing I’ve realized is this, the quality of your practice sets up the caliber of your performance. It’s not what they did in the final moments that made them great. It’s what they did in the silent, lonely hours of practice over and over and over that allowed them to show up the way they did in the final moments of the championship game. You see, if you do something in practice over and over to the point of subconscious automaticity, then when you’re in the fire of the last moment of the championship game, you go into default world-class and you just make the move that wins the game without even thinking about it.
