About

Michael jordan

Michael Jordan wasn’t a natural, either. He was the hardest-working athlete,

perhaps in the history of sport.

It is well known that Michael Jordan was cut from the high school varsity

team—we laugh at the coach who cut him. He wasn’t recruited by the college he

wanted to play for (North Carolina State). Well, weren’t they foolish? He wasn’t

drafted by the first two NBA teams that could have chosen him. What a blooper!

Because now we know he was the greatest basketball player ever, and we think

it should have been obvious from the start. When we look at him we see

MICHAEL JORDAN. But at that point he was only Michael Jordan.

When Jordan was cut from the varsity team, he was devastated. His mother

says, “I told him to go back and discipline himself.” Boy, did he listen. He used

to leave the house at six in the morning to go practice before school. At the

University of North Carolina, he constantly worked on his weaknesses—his

defensive game and his ball handling and shooting. The coach was taken aback

by his willingness to work harder than anyone else. Once, after the team lost the

last game of the season, Jordan went and practiced his shots for hours. He was

preparing for the next year. Even at the height of his success and fame—after he

had made himself into an athletic genius—his dogged practice remained

legendary. Former Bulls assistant coach John Bach called him “a genius who

constantly wants to upgrade his genius.”

For Jordan, success stems from the mind. “The mental toughness and the heart".