Modern Wisdom
#866 - Jesse James West - How To Stay Disciplined When Times Get Tough
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
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Chapter 1: What does it mean to stay relentless?
Where does stay relentless come from?
The relentless part, that comes from my father, 100%, where he definitely ingrained in my head being relentless. I feel like without saying stay relentless to me, just sort of by his actions throughout life. And I believe that
as i have gotten older as i played sports my entire life and obviously not now but from 11 years old all the way until 18 years old playing sports i discovered the whole like non-stop continuously grinding and the more work you put in the more you get out and i feel like that sort of defined who i am and i feel that that's something that i've always aspired to be is to be the hardest worker in the room
Chapter 2: How did Jesse's upbringing shape his work ethic?
And to do that, you need to be relentless. I mean, like, you look at the dictionary definition, I'm sort of explaining it. And it really stuck with me. And I was like, I feel like this is something that I embody and also can sort of motivate others to become, hopefully. What's your dad got to do with that? My dad... So my dad, he's a blue collar guy. He is, his name's John.
So John is a blue collar man. He has worked many jobs. He's cut wood in the winter and made me load it next to him and stuff. So he has always had a lot on his plate and just never really complained or anything. He just always did it, did it, did it, get it done, get it done, get it done. And never had an excuse either. And I was like, sort of growing up around him was very much
He believed that that's how I should be as well. So one, by showing me and two, by always like telling me like, if there's something that needs to get done, you don't wait, you do it now. If you are trying to be great at something, you go practice, you get better and you will be great. Like it was very like tough love and stuff, but he always was patient.
he had a million, he had five rental properties all at once that he was a landlord too. He fixed everything in the house, rebuilt the entire house on top of a normal nine to five that he wakes up at like four in the morning, driving an hour into the city, doing work. So it was like witnessing that firsthand. It was almost like I grew up with no excuse to be made.
So I feel like that really ingrained in my head from a young age, just being relentless and like That's just who I am. And it's like, I can't not be that way.
It took a while for me. My sport growing up was cricket, which is much more gentlemanly. You play cricket? Yeah, that was my game for a decade. But it's also not only gentlemanly, but quite gentle as well. It's very much an art form. It's almost exclusively about skill. S&C for it is primarily just for injury prevention.
So the line of the hard work, what you put in is what you get out, that line wasn't really made clear to me until I got into the world of business and university. Even at school, I don't know, I kind of wish that I did, but I didn't draw the line between hard work equals good performance. I'm aware that that's a very basic realization. It didn't come to me until I was much older.
But what does being an 11 to 18, 19-year-old lacrosse? I play lacrosse, yep. What does that philosophy, when you're still a child, feel like?
You know, it was very... It's very difficult to comprehend as a kid. Looking back, it all makes sense. And I'm like, I have no regrets on my relationship with my dad, my relationship with coaches and sports. But playing lacrosse, I was fortunately very good at it right away. And I feel like whenever I was good at something...
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Jesse face in high school?
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It's places around countries where it's very difficult to get hold of high quality food. I often think about role model deserts or sort of support deserts, places where someone is trying to do something a little bit different. Maybe they're not following the prescribed route that typically people from where they're from are doing. And they go... Because you did it twice.
You first left the normal education, normal teenager life to do the lacrosse thing and then left the lacrosse life thing to do the next thing.
It's been like five things that I've kind of like said I'm out. I left that normal teenage life. That's one. Left Lehigh. That's two. Went to Montclair State University, D3 school, very close to home, sort of like a more expensive community college you can live at and played lacrosse there and played there, did very well, had the most goals in the team and stuff like that.
So again, people are like, keep doing it, bro. Keep doing it. You're doing amazing. Oh my God.
Positive reinforcement.
And I'm like, is this what I'm supposed to be doing though? So then that got to a point where, I went straight into my coach and was like, hey, I don't want to do this anymore. That was the third time. He luckily, I appreciate what he did. He was like, I want you to shift your perspective. I don't want you to look at this I was waiting for the beeping.
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