James: I heard that as an athlete growing up. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent. If you practice incorrectly you develop incorrect habits, you get incorrect results. If you practice in the correct manner, you acquire correct habits, you get correct results.
So that old myth that has been floating around that practice makes perfect I don't believe is correct. It is perfect practice because practice makes permanent.
Gracen: Interesting. Are your programs just geared towards adults or are they beneficial to kids?
James: That's the great thing. When I put this together to leave a lasting legacy, to impact as many lives as possible, I said I wanted to be able to impact people whether they are young kids or in their fifties, sixties, or seventies, or twenties. I wanted to make a simple recipe that anybody of any age could follow. It doesn't matter your background. It does not matter if you're tall or short, rich or poor, young or old, male or female. You believe and trust in the process and the recipe and the recipe will make the cake for you.
It is for anybody of any age. It is very simple to understand. It is proven. It's time-tested and here is the big key. It works and it delivers.
Gracen: All right. Everybody carries around with them certain ideas about achievement. Can you dispel some of the myths that people might already have carrying around with them? Tell me some myths.
James: There is a big one that has been floating around for ever. It was passed down to me and maybe you've heard this growing up. If you want to be successful you've got to work hard.
Gracen: I've heard that.
James: I've heard that many, many times. I do not believe that to be true. Allow me to give you an example. When I was growing up and I was a sophomore in high school I wanted to be a great 3-point shooter in high school because I thought that would be my way out of my small steel mill town so I can go on and play college basketball.
I painted a 3-point line on this playground that was close to my house. Every day in the summer and all night I was out there and I was just shooting. Just practicing because the 3-point line, my senior year, 2 years later was going to be in high school basketball. I thought I'd go out there and work hard.
Gracen: Makes sense.
James: All day and all night, twelve hours, I am out there shooting and I couldn't make a shot. I was throwing up so many bricks you would have thought I was building a house.
There was always one gentleman over the in corner, Mr. Mason, who was sitting on his swing and he watched me. Finally one day I had just had it. I blew up. I said, "I can't do this." "I am terrible."
He got up off his swing and he walked over to the court and said, "I'll tell you why you're missing your shots."
I said, "Are you a coach?"
He said, "No never coached."
I said, "Did you play?"
He said, "Nope, never played."
I'm thinking how in the world is this guy going to tell me why I'm missing my shots. I kind of sarcastically said, "go ahead."
He said, "I'll give you this. In theory you are working hard because you are out here all day and all night."
Then it goes Gracen into do not work harder work smarter. That is only half right.
Gracen: Oh.
So that old myth that has been floating around that practice makes perfect I don't believe is correct. It is perfect practice because practice makes permanent.
Gracen: Interesting. Are your programs just geared towards adults or are they beneficial to kids?
James: That's the great thing. When I put this together to leave a lasting legacy, to impact as many lives as possible, I said I wanted to be able to impact people whether they are young kids or in their fifties, sixties, or seventies, or twenties. I wanted to make a simple recipe that anybody of any age could follow. It doesn't matter your background. It does not matter if you're tall or short, rich or poor, young or old, male or female. You believe and trust in the process and the recipe and the recipe will make the cake for you.
It is for anybody of any age. It is very simple to understand. It is proven. It's time-tested and here is the big key. It works and it delivers.
Gracen: All right. Everybody carries around with them certain ideas about achievement. Can you dispel some of the myths that people might already have carrying around with them? Tell me some myths.
James: There is a big one that has been floating around for ever. It was passed down to me and maybe you've heard this growing up. If you want to be successful you've got to work hard.
Gracen: I've heard that.
James: I've heard that many, many times. I do not believe that to be true. Allow me to give you an example. When I was growing up and I was a sophomore in high school I wanted to be a great 3-point shooter in high school because I thought that would be my way out of my small steel mill town so I can go on and play college basketball.
I painted a 3-point line on this playground that was close to my house. Every day in the summer and all night I was out there and I was just shooting. Just practicing because the 3-point line, my senior year, 2 years later was going to be in high school basketball. I thought I'd go out there and work hard.
Gracen: Makes sense.
James: All day and all night, twelve hours, I am out there shooting and I couldn't make a shot. I was throwing up so many bricks you would have thought I was building a house.
There was always one gentleman over the in corner, Mr. Mason, who was sitting on his swing and he watched me. Finally one day I had just had it. I blew up. I said, "I can't do this." "I am terrible."
He got up off his swing and he walked over to the court and said, "I'll tell you why you're missing your shots."
I said, "Are you a coach?"
He said, "No never coached."
I said, "Did you play?"
He said, "Nope, never played."
I'm thinking how in the world is this guy going to tell me why I'm missing my shots. I kind of sarcastically said, "go ahead."
He said, "I'll give you this. In theory you are working hard because you are out here all day and all night."
Then it goes Gracen into do not work harder work smarter. That is only half right.
Gracen: Oh.
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