This book will do for you what Tim has done for me–take you to the next level, and show you how to be the best at whatever you do. I have unbelievable trust and faith in him.” –Dwyane Wade Part 3: The Unstoppable Control Their Instincts explains the second of the two main relentless qualities, and outlines how to train yourself to use your animal instincts constructively in your field.

It's mainly about the author's experience in training professional basketball players. The guidance doesn't apply to other areas like business. For example, he talks about how a player needs to train until the actions becomes instinctive. Under pressure, the player just reacts (no thinking, no wasting precious seconds to come up with a plan). That advice doesn't really work in business; only in sports. Coolers are good. Closers are great. Cleaners – people such as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade – are unstoppable. In other words, be more prepared than everybody and be flexible so when things go wrong, you can be flexible and confident and trust your instincts at that point to bring about the best possible solution].

PDF Summary Part 2: The Unstoppable Need to Succeed | Chapter 2: Never Stop Improving

Don't focus on what you can't do. Find out what you can do and put yourself in a system where you can succeed. Grover says that activating intense focus involves a different method for each individual, but tends to involve one of these three: getting angry, staying calm, or staying positive. We’ll now explore how these three can help activate intense focus. Method #1: Get Angry Remember, Tim Grover has coached some of the most successful basketball players in the history of basketball. However, Grover also emphasizes that you need to make sure that indulging your primal desires doesn’t take priority over succeeding in your field. If your desires take first priority, you’ll spend too much time and energy on indulgence and won’t be able to relentlessly pursue success in your field. Calling It Quits

In Relentless, author Tim Grover explains the qualities you’ll need to become the best in your field—qualities that he collectively calls “relentlessness.” In this guide, we’ll first define relentlessness. Then, we’ll explore the two main qualities Grover argues are essential to relentlessness: Chapter 8: When You're a Cleaner...When everyone is hitting the 'In Case of Emergency' button, they're all looking for you. Chapter 3: When You're a Cleaner...You keep pushing yourself harder when everyone else has had enough. Work. Working hard is not a skill, it is not a talent, it is something which you either do or don't. Anything is possible given the time and effort, but most people are not able to put in that time. WORK. Work everyday, Kobe Bryant would work as hard on the off season as he would during the regular season. He would train multiple times a day in any way he could even if he had an injury. There are a lot of talented people in the world and a lot of hard working people as well. The only way to set yourself apart is to go the extra mile every single day.Shortform note: Grover suggests that acting on instinct will help you avoid strong emotions, but many psychologists provide a contrasting view. Research around panic suggests that it comes from a “fight or flight” response—our natural, instinctual response to potential danger. In other words, instinct can create strong fearful emotions if you’re not able to direct it into intense focus.) There's a lot of talk about Jordan, Briant and other NBA stars but you know it is appliable to any area of life.. The book is all about giving us insights into how Cleaners think, walk, talk, behave, and act. It’s about showing us what makes Cleaners unstoppable so that we can choose to become a Cleaner ourselves – if we choose to do so and are ready to pay the prize. “Cooler, Closer, Cleaner… good, great, unstoppable. You can be whichever you want. If you want to be unstoppable, you’ve got to make the commitment.” Shortform note: Psychological research agrees with Grover’s argument that using stress as a tool helps you succeed, and suggests that, beyond helping you avoid fear of failure, it also benefits your mental and physical health. One study found that those who think of stress as a positive, motivating force focused less on negative emotion and had less cardiovascular stress.) How to Productively Pressure Yourself This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: scarce and scarcely. Improve your English with Collins.

For the rest of the guide, we’ll discuss the two main qualities Grover says you need to be Unstoppable: the need to succeed and the ability to direct your instincts. We’ll start in this part of the guide by defining the need to succeed through three different principles that support this quality:I'm 100% certain that if you bring me into any situation, I'm going to have a positive impact on you.

I want you in a routine, and I don't want that routine to vary, whether it's a meaningless pre-season exhibition, or the championship game of the finals. Do what you do everyday, so you never have to account for the environment or the situation.” Some really great nuggets of truth in here- basically a great reminder that the only person responsible for your success is you, and if you want something bad enough you’ll do anything to get it. Quit making excuses, work hard, etc. After defining relentlessness, Grover notes three categories of people defined by how often they act relentlessly: Rarely or never relentless people are “Good,” people who are relentless in specific circumstances are “Great,” and people who are always relentless are “Unstoppable.” Defining the Good When you never have to take on anything harder than your daily routine, why would anything change? If you do the same thing over and over and over again, why should anything change? By definition, when you do the same thing over and over again… it stays the same. It's a mindset for mental toughness. Tell yourself what to do and stop waiting for others to lay it all out.”

What is Tim Grover’s book Relentless about? How does Grover feel you can become the best version of yourself?