# Transcript: And where is your ceiling?

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So what exactly is this secret about? Let’s explore that on Brain&Breakfast!



Who is Pavel Pumprla?



Pavel Pumprla is a former captain of the Czech national basketball team. Throughout his long professional sports career, he learned many lessons in personal development and leadership that can be applied both in work and personal life. He now shares this blend of practical experience and theoretical knowledge in personal development and leadership through his inspiring talks at companies, schools, and in the sports world. He is the author of the Leader’s GPS project, which aims to deliver these valuable lessons to individuals and companies, encouraging them to continuously approach their maximum potential. Additionally, he hosts the inspiring podcast Cesty vítězů and is the moderator of the show Až ke stropu on the Red Button EDU platform.

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**[00:10:00]** what it hits on and at the same time it was kind of like the first exclamation mark.

**[00:10:05]** Well, luckily, the next three months I had very similar experiences with that coach,

**[00:10:12]** but in the sense that we just, as they say, didn't click and I wasn't given any playing time.

**[00:10:21]** So I wasn't surprised at all when I got an email where the coach was replying to a fan

**[00:10:26]** asking why I wasn't playing in those matches.

**[00:10:30]** The coach gave some reasons why I wasn't playing at that moment, why someone else was playing.

**[00:10:35]** But the key part of that email was that he started describing

**[00:10:40]** why he thought I would never amount to anything.

**[00:10:43]** And there was even a sentence that stuck with me to this day.

**[00:10:46]** It was the sentence, I think Pavel has very limited potential and won't get far.

**[00:10:51]** And of course, there were many ways I could react to that.

**[00:10:55]** At first, I was naturally angry, it hurt me deeply,

**[00:10:59]** but then I started thinking about it and at that time I was already diving into some books

**[00:11:05]** from the personal development field and I started telling myself,

**[00:11:08]** how is it possible that after just a few months of knowing me,

**[00:11:11]** you would tell me I have limited potential.

**[00:11:14]** Everyone says potential should be relatively unlimited

**[00:11:18]** and that it can be found in other ways.

**[00:11:20]** And at that moment I decided that whenever in life I meet someone

**[00:11:24]** who tells me something like that, I will use it as motivation,

**[00:11:28]** to prove to that person that I want to achieve more

**[00:11:33]** than what they think I can achieve, but at the same time I will use it

**[00:11:37]** as that proverbial fuel to push me further.

**[00:11:40]** So lesson number one logically follows from this.

**[00:11:44]** For me, everyone always looks for their ceiling.

**[00:11:47]** That means, try to realize, because this sentence

**[00:11:51]** or something similar, each of us has heard many times in life.

**[00:11:55]** You can't do it like that, you don't have what it takes, you can't combine those things together.

**[00:12:00]** Remember, whether it was a teacher, coach, or parents.

**[00:12:03]** And of course, very often it was ourselves.

**[00:12:05]** We have some feeling that something shouldn't be done that way.

**[00:12:09]** But if we limit ourselves by trusting people,

**[00:12:13]** and yes, sometimes they might be right,

**[00:12:15]** but if we don't follow our own path,

**[00:12:17]** that sentence will keep echoing in our heads.

**[00:12:20]** I'll just show you a few examples of when I heard that sentence

**[00:12:24]** in my own life.

**[00:12:25]** One was from a coach who said I had limited potential,

**[00:12:29]** then it continued with the idea that I probably wouldn't get far,

**[00:12:32]** that maybe I'd spend a few years in our top league,

**[00:12:35]** and that would be the end of it.

**[00:12:36]** But I spent about 10-12 years after that as captain

**[00:12:41]** of the national team at the World Championship, where we reached

**[00:12:44]** as a Czech team for the first time in 37 years, playing in front of 20,000 fans.

**[00:12:49]** I don't think even I dreamed of that at the time,

**[00:12:52]** even though I believed in myself, and certainly not in that coach.

**[00:12:56]** Another thing I often heard was that if I wanted to be

**[00:13:00]** a full-time professional athlete, I should say goodbye to school,

**[00:13:03]** because those two things can't be combined.

**[00:13:06]** That was, of course, a challenge for me,

**[00:13:08]** so during my career I earned three university degrees,

**[00:13:13]** including from Northumbria University in Newcastle,

**[00:13:15]** in business and leadership fields.

**[00:13:18]** I'm not saying these things to brag about playing somewhere, maybe a little,

**[00:13:21]** and I'm not mentioning the schools to be interesting or to gain credibility,

**[00:13:26]** although, as I said, it might help a bit in the list of men.

**[00:13:29]** I say this because big red flags were set before me,

**[00:13:33]** and I turned them into dashes and told myself,

**[00:13:37]** no, I think it can be done.

**[00:13:40]** They also told me, you can't crochet if you're a basketball player.

**[00:13:42]** No one actually said that to me, that's complete nonsense,

**[00:13:47]** no one would even think I could do that.

**[00:13:49]** But I was looking for my creative side for a while,

**[00:13:52]** I'm not good at painting, so my kids draw the pictures for me.

**[00:13:56]** And my wife said, try crocheting, you're so methodical,

**[00:14:00]** you like recipes and instructions and stuff like that.

**[00:14:03]** So she showed me, and I started to enjoy it,

**[00:14:08]** So I started taking it on the bus.

**[00:14:10]** And of course, you can imagine a bus full of basketball players,

**[00:14:15]** and the expressions they had.

**[00:14:18]** An American guy walked by and said, what the fuck you doing?

**[00:14:23]** You knitting?

**[00:14:25]** He talked about the world of difference between knitting and crocheting,

**[00:14:28]** which was very entertaining, I think he remembers it to this day.

**[00:14:32]** However, when we were going back from that game,

**[00:14:34]** he saw this finished toy,

**[00:14:37]** and he said, that's unbelievable, I never thought in my life

**[00:14:40]** that someone could make that on the bus like you did.

**[00:14:43]** Then he asked me if I could knit him a sweater, which I didn’t.

**[00:14:51]** Crocheting is pointless work.

**[00:14:54]** And the last thing they told me,

**[00:14:58]** maybe you know the stereotype about athletes,

**[00:15:03]** and unfortunately some still confirm it with their statements,

**[00:15:08]** which is that athletes aren’t very good at talking,

**[00:15:10]** and mostly the interviews end up badly on YouTube,

**[00:15:14]** so it’s definitely a well-known phrase,

**[00:15:17]** that basically everyone knows.

**[00:15:20]** And they told me, you’re crazy if you want to go somewhere

**[00:15:23]** to talk about your experiences in companies.

**[00:15:25]** Not only have I been going to companies for a few years now,

**[00:15:28]** and they invite me to interesting events,

**[00:15:30]** I even managed to squeeze in, as I said,

**[00:15:32]** among a list of really interesting people,

**[00:15:35]** and I can be here with you today.

**[00:15:37]** So whatever exclamation mark

**[00:15:40]** someone puts in front of you,

**[00:15:42]** you can always look at it from a different angle

**[00:15:45]** and use it as motivation instead.

**[00:15:48]** And because on my journey I also started looking for people

**[00:15:53]** who managed to do something that someone thought was impossible,

**[00:15:57]** I started coming across many interesting records

**[00:16:01]** and people who built something from nothing.

**[00:16:04]** So I want you to think about this question.

**[00:16:07]** How fast can a person ride a bike?

**[00:16:11]** What speed is possible to reach?

**[00:16:13]** Just think about that.

**[00:16:15]** For those of you watching remotely, and for you soon

**[00:16:17]** We'll give you a chance to look at it on the slide,

**[00:16:19]** but first I want you to think about it.

**[00:16:21]** Because the way you think about it is important.

**[00:16:24]** And of course, I can't guess the number you have in mind,

**[00:16:28]** but I can somewhat guess the way you're thinking about it.

**[00:16:31]** Because when someone asks us what is possible,

**[00:16:34]** how fast you can ride a bike, we think backwards.

**[00:16:39]** We look at our experience, whether our own,

**[00:16:42]** or what we've observed.

**[00:16:44]** That means, yeah, I once rode downhill at 45,

**[00:16:47]** I had a bit of distance covered in an hour,

**[00:16:50]** so maybe twice that if someone could ride.

**[00:16:53]** Or I saw the Tour de France on TV,

**[00:16:55]** or a similar race, where they ride 70, 80 km/h,

**[00:16:58]** but if done specially,

**[00:17:00]** maybe it could go even faster.

**[00:17:02]** We think this way, backwards.

**[00:17:04]** We look at what is probable,

**[00:17:06]** not what is possible.

**[00:17:09]** Now please open the slide,

**[00:17:12]** whoever can, or just keep the number in your head.

**[00:17:15]** We'll give some time and I'd be interested in your guesses,

**[00:17:17]** how fast you think it's possible to ride a bike.

**[00:17:20]** And of course, when I ask this question,

**[00:17:25]** I often get follow-up questions.

**[00:17:27]** Often about what is meant, is it downhill,

**[00:17:30]** was I pulled by a car, so I usually

**[00:17:33]** explain it somehow.

**[00:17:35]** This is John Howard in 1985 when he set the record.

**[00:17:39]** As you can see, it's not an old dad's favorite bike from the garage,

**[00:17:43]** it's a specially made bike.

**[00:17:45]** Maybe interestingly, one pedal turn

**[00:17:49]** can cover more than 30 meters.

**[00:17:51]** And yes, you can't pedal it normally, the car has to pull you,

**[00:17:55]** but only up to a certain speed,

**[00:17:57]** about 80-90 km/h, after that you pedal on your own.

**[00:18:02]** So, that's the assistance.

**[00:18:04]** Let's see if any guesses show up.

**[00:18:08]** We have a nice word cloud there, I like the 500 at the bottom,

**[00:18:12]** that's awesome.

**[00:18:14]** Some planes don't have that.

**[00:18:16]** But unlimited, we're interesting in any case.

**[00:18:19]** It's beautiful to watch the difference between,

**[00:18:24]** when I sometimes ask the question right at the start,

**[00:18:27]** the answers usually come where we have the biggest number,

**[00:18:31]** usually around 120-130 km,

**[00:18:33]** that's the speed that's still tangible for us,

**[00:18:36]** because you can drive at that speed on the highway,

**[00:18:40]** as long as I can keep up.

**[00:18:42]** I like that today we have a humorous group,

**[00:18:45]** who are watching somewhere.

**[00:18:49]** Feel free to keep throwing in answers.

**[00:18:52]** Does anyone want to shout out loud what they think?

**[00:18:57]** No? Okay.

**[00:18:58]** Then I'll tell you.

**[00:19:00]** John Howard set the record in 1985 at 254 km/h.

**[00:19:06]** So some were very close with their 250,

**[00:19:11]** but in 2016 Denise Miller Korenek came along,

**[00:19:14]** and she updated his record to the current 296 km/h.

**[00:19:19]** So the answers would really be around 300.

**[00:19:23]** The 500 was obviously a big miss.

**[00:19:26]** I'd like to say now that it's impossible,

**[00:19:28]** but that would kind of undermine what I'm talking about here.

**[00:19:32]** So I think just looking at the number,

**[00:19:35]** it's incredible on its own.

**[00:19:38]** It's really very interesting,

**[00:19:40]** if you want, try to look it up on YouTube sometime.

**[00:19:44]** What looks a bit like a car,

**[00:19:46]** not the Jeep in the picture yet,

**[00:19:48]** but the one that looks a bit like a paper swallow,

**[00:19:52]** inside it is a car she had to follow,

**[00:19:57]** which kept her in an air pocket.

**[00:20:00]** Because obviously, at this speed, air resistance alone couldn't keep her up.

**[00:20:04]** It's very interesting to watch how it had to be, and it's also interesting because of team cooperation,

**[00:20:09]** and that's why I sometimes use this video, that there had to be perfect cooperation,

**[00:20:14]** between the one driving the car in front and her on the bike, both going equally fast,

**[00:20:18]** and no big accident happened.

**[00:20:21]** So, I'll move on a bit.

**[00:20:26]** Lesson number two, I'll give you a nice acronym again, maybe even more memorable,

**[00:20:33]** and that will be KNZ.

**[00:20:35]** In that first team I mentioned I was in,

**[00:20:38]** I really didn't get any bigger opportunity,

**[00:20:42]** and we could speculate in hindsight whether I deserved it or not,

**[00:20:46]** whether I was ready or not.

**[00:20:47]** However, I had to make a so-called sidestep and I wanted to play,

**[00:20:52]** I wanted to move my career forward, so I transferred to Opava,

**[00:20:57]** which was a team playing in the second highest league at the time,

**[00:21:00]** and there I started to build my position from scratch.

**[00:21:03]** I succeeded, and one of the reasons I did was

**[00:21:06]** that I was influenced by many inspiring people,

**[00:21:10]** especially athletes I was reading about at the time,

**[00:21:13]** who said that behind many of their successes are so-called unseen hours,

**[00:21:16]** meaning the hours, the time when you do something

**[00:21:20]** and no one actually sees you doing it.

**[00:21:22]** In sports terminology, it means,

**[00:21:25]** often doing something extra, the classic example,

**[00:21:27]** being the first to arrive at the gym and the last to leave,

**[00:21:30]** just working on yourself much more.

**[00:21:32]** And on one such day, I was sitting on a spinning bike,

**[00:21:38]** pushing myself a bit after training, when the coach came over,

**[00:21:42]** so I took my headphones out,

**[00:21:44]** where Ludská Bílá was screaming Amor Magor, and I said,

**[00:21:49]** yes, coach, do you need something?

**[00:21:51]** And he asked a strange question,

**[00:21:54]** he said, don't you find it strange that you're here alone?

**[00:21:59]** And it was asked in such a peculiar way,

**[00:22:01]** because why should I find it strange that I'm here alone,

**[00:22:04]** after all, I want to get somewhere,

**[00:22:08]** and it wasn't my job, or at least that's how I saw it then,

**[00:22:12]** to pull someone else along with me.

**[00:22:14]** If I don't lead by example, or they aren't inspired by the fact

**[00:22:18]** that I'm working on myself, then it's not my job,

**[00:22:20]** to drag them by the collar to the gym or something,

**[00:22:23]** to make them train earlier with me.

**[00:22:25]** However, it helped me realize

**[00:22:27]** that I was actually on the right path, where I wanted to be,

**[00:22:31]** that I had set a goal for myself, where I wanted to get,

**[00:22:34]** I didn't want to end up where I was at that moment,

**[00:22:37]** so I set some goals to aim for,

**[00:22:39]** and by working on myself,

**[00:22:41]** So I wanted to pursue that goal.

**[00:22:43]** But the interesting thing was, I actually succeeded very well,

**[00:22:46]** because after two years here in the Opava team,

**[00:22:49]** I made it straight to the best Czech team, Donimburka,

**[00:22:53]** which by then had won about ten Czech titles in a row,

**[00:22:57]** so you could say it was a dream fulfilled in a way.

**[00:23:01]** And what happened to me at that moment was, I might have fully lived out

**[00:23:06]** my famous phrase about resting on my laurels,

**[00:23:08]** because at that moment I actually stopped working on myself,

**[00:23:11]** because I was satisfied that I had,

**[00:23:13]** that I had made it to this team.

**[00:23:15]** And luckily, we had an Israeli coach there,

**[00:23:18]** who quickly got me back on the right track,

**[00:23:20]** because once, about 15-20 minutes before training started,

**[00:23:23]** he met me in the hallway on the way to the gym

**[00:23:25]** and said, "Do you hear the ball in the hall?"

**[00:23:28]** I said, "Yeah, I hear it. Do you know who's there?"

**[00:23:30]** I said, "Yeah, I know, one of my teammates."

**[00:23:32]** He said, "Don't you think you should be there?"

**[00:23:35]** He didn't have to say more.

**[00:23:36]** At that moment, it clicked back for me and I said,

**[00:23:38]** "But I don't want to stop here yet,"

**[00:23:40]** "I want to go further."

**[00:23:43]** So, as I said, he brought me back,

**[00:23:45]** back on the right track and helped me again,

**[00:23:47]** to find my goal again.

**[00:23:49]** And maybe this is a question for you,

**[00:23:51]** because what is actually the GPS of our life,

**[00:23:55]** and what happens if we don't enter any directions into it?

**[00:23:59]** Well, this happens: you simply end up nowhere,

**[00:24:02]** because if you don't enter anything,

**[00:24:04]** you'll just wander around and never arrive anywhere,

**[00:24:07]** and that's how our lives sometimes look.

**[00:24:11]** And the Moons built their own civilization.

**[00:24:14]** They had a wonderful life,

**[00:24:16]** but still something was missing.

**[00:24:22]** It looks like Malatík.

**[00:24:25]** They felt empty inside.

**[00:24:27]** Without a lord, they lacked a sense of life.

**[00:24:30]** They suffered from boredom and depression.

**[00:24:38]** If it kept going like this,

**[00:24:40]** they would definitely go extinct.

**[00:24:45]** The worst part is that some people recognize themselves in it too much.

**[00:24:50]** I know we have a group here,

**[00:24:53]** that thinks about themselves a bit differently,

**[00:24:56]** because otherwise you wouldn’t be here at all.

**[00:24:59]** And setting goals.

**[00:25:01]** Sometimes, when I say this during some of these talks

**[00:25:03]** or lectures,

**[00:25:05]** people start slapping their foreheads

**[00:25:07]** and say, oh, here he goes again,

**[00:25:09]** that our goals have to be smart,

**[00:25:12]** measurable, and clever,

**[00:25:14]** and have to be all that.

**[00:25:17]** But that’s not what it’s about.

**[00:25:18]** It’s about sitting down, pausing,

**[00:25:20]** and asking yourself what success means to me,

**[00:25:23]** what my definition of success is.

**[00:25:25]** Because what happens if you don’t define it yourself,

**[00:25:27]** if you don’t set your own directions into your GPS,

**[00:25:30]** someone else will put them in for you.

**[00:25:32]** And usually without you even knowing it.

**[00:25:34]** Because society throws and aims at us from all sides,

**[00:25:36]** and maybe I should have this car,

**[00:25:38]** maybe I should have a house this big,

**[00:25:40]** maybe I should dress like this,

**[00:25:42]** buy this handbag,

**[00:25:43]** if you walk around, it’s very clear

**[00:25:45]** how some people think.

**[00:25:47]** But I’m not saying any of that is wrong.

**[00:25:49]** Maybe that’s actually what you want to achieve.

**[00:25:51]** But you need to stop and think about it,

**[00:25:53]** ask yourself what it means to you,

**[00:25:55]** how you define success,

**[00:25:57]** and what your goals are,

**[00:25:58]** that you want to achieve somehow.

**[00:26:00]** And what I use then,

**[00:26:02]** to do a little exercise,

**[00:26:10]** which will try to open our minds a heads a bit,

**[00:26:13]** is that I ask about

**[00:26:15]** in which categories you most often set goals for yourselves

**[00:26:19]** or in which categories people set them.

**[00:26:20]** So please, again, the slide,

**[00:26:22]** and try to list areas,

**[00:26:24]** as many as you can think of.

**[00:26:25]** There are no strict limits.

**[00:26:28]** It might be easier if you can,

**[00:26:29]** where possible, to write just one word,

**[00:26:32]** so we can later create a nice word cloud,

**[00:26:35]** if someone mentions something more often.

**[00:26:38]** If you don't feel like typing it on your phone or so,

**[00:26:41]** just think about it quietly.

**[00:26:44]** Then, when we look at it,

**[00:26:46]** some interesting things will emerge.

**[00:26:48]** Because my experience from this,

**[00:26:49]** and I've done this exercise with many people,

**[00:26:52]** is that even here, our thinking

**[00:26:56]** is somewhat limited.

**[00:26:58]** And you can clearly see the influence of the society around us,

**[00:27:02]** which basically suggests to us

**[00:27:04]** what our goals should theoretically be.

**[00:27:09]** Great, it's starting to appear now.

**[00:27:11]** Yes, work is a big one, sports, finance.

**[00:27:15]** Family stands out there.

**[00:27:17]** I'm really glad that family appears

**[00:27:20]** almost inevitably,

**[00:27:22]** the only problem is when I do some of these lectures

**[00:27:25]** or workshops for managers afterwards,

**[00:27:28]** and everyone writes family,

**[00:27:30]** I ask them what they mean by family,

**[00:27:33]** and they say they want to spend a lot of time with family

**[00:27:36]** and have good experiences with them.

**[00:27:38]** Then I ask them to take out their calendar,

**[00:27:41]** and they get a huge slap in the face,

**[00:27:43]** because they know family should come first

**[00:27:46]** and they should spend a lot of time with them,

**[00:27:48]** but looking at their calendar,

**[00:27:50]** you can see they barely have a few minutes for them.

**[00:27:54]** It's great how much it jumps around,

**[00:27:57]** so I'm not freedom and democracy yesterday.

**[00:28:00]** That's not exactly a personal goal,

**[00:28:03]** or I don't know how to grasp it,

**[00:28:05]** but very interesting. Why not?

**[00:28:07]** I would be interested in the gradual steps,

**[00:28:10]** that always need to be taken,

**[00:28:12]** because we can set some big goal,

**[00:28:16]** which might be unattainable,

**[00:28:18]** which is idealistic,

**[00:28:20]** but of course then there's always,

**[00:28:22]** and it's like that with any goal,

**[00:28:24]** a need to set gradual steps.

**[00:28:26]** That means how I can get closer to it in a year,

**[00:28:29]** in three, in five, in a month,

**[00:28:31]** but at the same time, what I can do tomorrow,

**[00:28:33]** to somehow get closer to my goal.

**[00:28:36]** So right here with freedom and democracy, I'd be interested.

**[00:28:40]** When I look at it,

**[00:28:42]** or when you look at it,

**[00:28:44]** in the center are typically family, work, sports, education.

**[00:28:48]** It's very pleasant for me...

**[00:28:50]** Who put Liberec Region?

**[00:28:54]** You can't work when someone puts Liberec Region there.

**[00:28:58]** Yeah, maybe, to become...

**[00:29:00]** Well, okay.

**[00:29:02]** Maybe we can just put it back,

**[00:29:05]** so I don't have to look to the side.

**[00:29:08]** It's interesting, someone put 'be happy' there.

**[00:29:11]** And isn't that actually the ultimate goal,

**[00:29:14]** because when you look at any of those individual goals,

**[00:29:17]** and start asking why you want to set this goal,

**[00:29:19]** you usually end up at the final reason,

**[00:29:22]** that you want to be happier,

**[00:29:25]** or more satisfied, or something similar.

**[00:29:27]** We don't have control here from hygiene.

**[00:29:31]** Can it now, no longer?

**[00:29:33]** Just asking.

**[00:29:35]** And I was very pleased finally,

**[00:29:39]** I probably won't be able to use it anymore,

**[00:29:41]** that no one ever put it there,

**[00:29:43]** but I spotted 'finance' somewhere there.

**[00:29:45]** Because what often happens to me in these talks,

**[00:29:48]** is that when I ask people to enter these categories,

**[00:29:51]** money has never appeared there until today.

**[00:29:54]** And this is done with hundreds, maybe even thousands of people.

**[00:30:00]** It's very interesting, because if you talked to many people one-on-one,

**[00:30:04]** money or finance would always somehow show up among the goals people want to have.

**[00:30:10]** That's logically clear, why not? Sometimes we have this great idea,

**[00:30:14]** that too much money spoils character and so on, but then you look at people,

**[00:30:18]** like Ondra Vlček who was here recently, and you realize no,

**[00:30:22]** money just highlights your character, and if you're a good person and have a lot of money,

**[00:30:26]** you can do a lot of good, and if you're a jerk, then of course big money

**[00:30:30]** can mess with your head a bit. But I'm glad that I often open up

**[00:30:36]** why not think about it in some way, which we probably do,

**[00:30:40]** but at the same time maybe not talk openly about it, because I have a financial goal.

**[00:30:44]** I also look forward to not having a mortgage and being somehow secured,

**[00:30:49]** say until retirement, and being able to spend 100% of my time only on things

**[00:30:53]** I enjoy and not having to do projects that maybe don't excite me as much,

**[00:30:58]** but are financially so interesting that it would be stupid not to do them.

**[00:31:02]** I can't go through everything at this speed. Of course, there are the usual ones,

**[00:31:07]** related to health and exercise. And what I say is, because mostly,

**[00:31:11]** when I ask this question, I hear the usual answers.

**[00:31:15]** I want to lose weight, I want to run a marathon, or at most I want

**[00:31:19]** to get promoted at work. And that's just the classic,

**[00:31:23]** which we feel we should want, and we never get to the depth

**[00:31:27]** of why we would actually want to do something like that.

**[00:31:30]** And here I have a children's drawing to help,

**[00:31:34]** where the categories are somewhat summarized, into which many of the goals

**[00:31:38]** you entered can be classified. The first is the classic health and movement,

**[00:31:42]** which should be very important, because if we don't have this,

**[00:31:46]** it's very hard to fulfill the others as well.

**[00:31:50]** Feel free to take a photo, I have the copyright, I'll pick posts later.

**[00:31:55]** And of course I'll credit kájek, who drew the picture.

**[00:31:59]** And there's the classic 'lose weight'.

**[00:32:02]** I also really enjoy these talks.

**[00:32:06]** I like to poke and provoke sometimes, yes, I do it well,

**[00:32:10]** because sport is my life and physically I'm quite fit.

**[00:32:14]** And sometimes when people keep repeating to me that they want to lose weight,

**[00:32:18]** So I say, losing weight isn't hard.

**[00:32:22]** And you should see the looks people give me when I say that.

**[00:32:26]** But that's true for many things. We know a lot, and there's plenty of information.

**[00:32:30]** It's not hard nowadays to find out what ideally to do.

**[00:32:34]** Maybe there is even too much information, but starting with gradual goals,

**[00:32:38]** if I just stick to it, eating healthy and moving a bit,

**[00:32:42]** and maybe not stressing too much, that's relatively enough.

**[00:32:46]** The best advice they give me is things like don't stress, we love you.

**[00:32:50]** But if you start thinking about what you want to prove in each category,

**[00:32:54]** and go a bit deeper, things will start to reveal themselves.

**[00:32:58]** Among the goals you wrote down,

**[00:33:03]** there were many types of learning, especially those that fall under intellect.

**[00:33:07]** Because these are skills we now know,

**[00:33:11]** at any age, thanks to the discovery of something called neuroplasticity,

**[00:33:17]** which means our brain can change even in older age,

**[00:33:21]** and adapt based on what we focus on and do.

**[00:33:25]** So we know it's not a problem to learn any activity or skill even later in life,

**[00:33:29]** if we dedicate enough time and approach it the right way.

**[00:33:33]** A category that appears much less often is the one below that: emotions and character.

**[00:33:39]** Because even people with a growth mindset in the previous categories,

**[00:33:44]** or many others, feel that their character is just how it is,

**[00:33:48]** and these are the emotions they experience, how they react to things,

**[00:33:52]** and that this can't really be changed much.

**[00:33:54]** But if you look back, ten years ago you reacted differently to many things

**[00:33:59]** than you do today.

**[00:34:01]** And when you look at things, especially emotions, there's an interesting exercise

**[00:34:05]** I suggest you try.

**[00:34:07]** Take the things you do daily and look at them,

**[00:34:11]** whether they come with positive emotions, meaning,

**[00:34:15]** do they add to you, bring you joy, or do you enjoy them,

**[00:34:19]** and which are the negative ones that you don't enjoy,

**[00:34:22]** or where you meet people who drain your energy.

**[00:34:26]** And when you see how many things you do here and how many you do there,

**[00:34:29]** first, it will show you why you might feel very tired

**[00:34:32]** and, as they say, emotionally drained.

**[00:34:35]** But at the same time, you can say,

**[00:34:37]** okay, what if I did a bit less of what I don't enjoy here,

**[00:34:42]** and shifted it to something more positive,

**[00:34:44]** or spent less time with the person who drains me like that.

**[00:34:47]** Yes, we're talking about the very basics, just how to think about it.

**[00:34:51]** and how to start, because relationship matters are often much harder,

**[00:34:55]** but it's a start and an interesting exercise,

**[00:34:58]** to somehow become aware of this.

**[00:35:00]** Then there are relationships, which, as I say, can include family,

**[00:35:04]** and they are very important, and if you watch various videos, lectures,

**[00:35:09]** or even read books about it, I'm talking about things

**[00:35:13]** that people regret the most at the end of their lives,

**[00:35:16]** almost everyone puts relationships first.

**[00:35:20]** That means I didn't spend enough time with that person,

**[00:35:23]** I didn't say what I wanted to say to them.

**[00:35:27]** I don't think anyone has in their top three regrets

**[00:35:31]** that they didn't work more.

**[00:35:33]** And I'm not saying, let's all go back to what they called it in the 70s,

**[00:35:39]** just traveling and enjoying the hippie lifestyle.

**[00:35:43]** It was a movement.

**[00:35:45]** I'm not saying let's bring back hippies and just travel and smoke

**[00:35:51]** and enjoy similar things and spread free love.

**[00:35:55]** Maybe better than spreading covid.

**[00:35:59]** But at the same time, let's reflect on whether

**[00:36:03]** we can somehow cut back a bit on work

**[00:36:06]** and stop chasing goals that maybe someone else set for us.

**[00:36:11]** Like career and money.

**[00:36:13]** And as I said about money, there's nothing wrong

**[00:36:16]** with thinking about your career and wanting to advance in it.

**[00:36:19]** But even here, it's quite good to define your goals,

**[00:36:22]** because it always helps when you have a clear goal,

**[00:36:25]** if you have vague, unclear goals,

**[00:36:28]** you will always get vague, unclear results.

**[00:36:31]** So try to set your goal more definitely,

**[00:36:34]** and then the steps you need to take will become much clearer.

**[00:36:38]** And then there's the final quality of life,

**[00:36:40]** which isn't just the material things you have,

**[00:36:43]** but try to think about what experiences you'd like to have.

**[00:36:46]** Few people tell me, sometimes a vacation comes up,

**[00:36:49]** I want to go to the Caribbean or somewhere.

**[00:36:52]** And let's try to describe within life goals

**[00:36:54]** what experiences we want to have, with whom we want to have them,

**[00:36:57]** and it nicely sums up into your life vision,

**[00:37:00]** which of course isn't fixed and it's good to revisit it sometimes.

**[00:37:08]** And so I don't deprive you of the great magic of what that second lesson was,

**[00:37:13]** but maybe it was about understanding, and here you have it again in a nice picture.

**[00:37:17]** The saying means, if you don't grow, you decay.

**[00:37:25]** Once I slightly offended a big bearded man at a lecture,

**[00:37:30]** saying it has nothing to do with not wanting to improve.

**[00:37:35]** So, to be a bit practical and because the slide might get crazy if you put it all there,

**[00:37:42]** I want you now to just take a moment

**[00:37:47]** under the impression of what we've been talking about.

**[00:37:49]** Try to think about one specific goal

**[00:37:53]** and what I want you to take away from here today is

**[00:37:58]** take that goal and I'll say it using an example,

**[00:38:03]** because it's very illustrative to run a marathon,

**[00:38:08]** because that's the classic one we feel like we've achieved something,

**[00:38:10]** that now we've really accomplished something.

**[00:38:14]** So if you took the goal of running a marathon,

**[00:38:17]** try to get right to the start and say,

**[00:38:21]** what can I do today or tomorrow and what can I do every day

**[00:38:26]** and the numbers vary, some say stick with it for 21 days,

**[00:38:29]** some say 66, I think it doesn't really matter,

**[00:38:32]** if you keep doing it for a month, you'll see results

**[00:38:36]** that will keep you going, and on the other hand, it can scare you off.

**[00:38:39]** But try to come up with something relatively simple,

**[00:38:42]** not too simple, that within fulfilling the goal

**[00:38:46]** you set at the top, you can do every day.

**[00:38:49]** That means, if I want to run a marathon,

**[00:38:51]** I can't just say, I'll run for an hour,

**[00:38:53]** because if you're not used to it, no one will go and run for an hour.

**[00:38:57]** Or if they do run for an hour, they'll never put those shoes on again.

**[00:39:01]** So, some say start just by putting on your shoes and clothes,

**[00:39:04]** then take them off again.

**[00:39:07]** That seems totally crazy to me because you haven't done anything.

**[00:39:12]** But even if it means just going for a five-minute walk in that outfit,

**[00:39:16]** around the block or whatever, and the next day you can extend it a bit

**[00:39:20]** or start running a little.

**[00:39:22]** So just take a moment to think about what your goal at the top would be,

**[00:39:27]** what you'd like to achieve, but one that can actually be broken down and chunked.

**[00:39:31]** And I know and see it in your expressions and I always experience it,

**[00:39:36]** one out of ten will do it, but that's enough for me.

**[00:39:38]** It would be enough for me if even one of you took one thing

**[00:39:41]** and started trying to do it from the next days.

**[00:39:44]** and then that change starts to build up.

**[00:39:48]** So, now we get to the third lesson,

**[00:39:51]** which I stick to quite well in good times,

**[00:39:53]** it kind of makes me happy, can I praise myself like this?

**[00:39:55]** Here, publicly? I can, okay.

**[00:39:57]** I once gave this lecture in Prague,

**[00:39:59]** I threw in this...

**[00:40:00]** this shortcut here and one guy from the audience says, yeah, it's crap, right?

**[00:40:05]** I said, that shortcut doesn’t quite cover it.

**[00:40:10]** Just like the two things before, you should say, this will entertain Brno.

**[00:40:17]** I say this based on another story from my career.

**[00:40:25]** As I said, during my career I fulfilled

**[00:40:28]** my dream of Spain, where I played for four years, and I even became captain of the national team.

**[00:40:33]** And also because we wanted to return to the Czech Republic, I came back

**[00:40:38]** to Nymburk, as I said, still the most successful

**[00:40:42]** Czech team of the last 20 years. We played a very important match

**[00:40:47]** and it’s a favorite story of my kids, well, it’s their second favorite,

**[00:40:53]** of course the top one is when I pooped my red shorts in kindergarten,

**[00:40:56]** that’s the clear number one for the kids. But number two is this, and the kids want me to tell

**[00:41:01]** the story, Dad, tell us how sad you were when you lost to Athens.

**[00:41:06]** We played a match against the Athens team from Greece for a spot among the top

**[00:41:12]** eight teams in the Champions League, which would have been a feat no Czech team

**[00:41:18]** had ever achieved before. So it was a very important match,

**[00:41:23]** the qualification rule was that we played the first game in Greece,

**[00:41:27]** which we surprisingly won by 10 points, and then we played the return match

**[00:41:31]** at home and logically we could even lose that match, but of course

**[00:41:35]** by no more than 9 points, less than the margin we won by there.

**[00:41:40]** And as you might guess, it came down to a very close finish,

**[00:41:44]** when at the moment we were only losing by 8 points, I had the chance

**[00:41:48]** about 20 seconds before the end to shoot two free throws.

**[00:41:52]** For those of you who aren’t really into basketball, this is the easiest

**[00:41:56]** shot there is. It’s the only shot in basketball where no one defends you,

**[00:42:00]** you’re rewarded for being fouled and you get two shots, during which,

**[00:42:04]** which is maybe paradoxically the disadvantage, the whole arena is watching and you have too much time

**[00:42:08]** to think about it. So I missed both of those free throws,

**[00:42:14]** on the other side they scored a three-pointer in the last second,

**[00:42:17]** we lost by 11 points and that ended our season.

**[00:42:21]** I have a very calm and maybe even kind nature, which at that moment,

**[00:42:28]** wasn’t really showing, I went into the locker room through the locked glass door,

**[00:42:35]** very dramatically and it even scared my teammates a bit because they had to cross

**[00:42:41]** Through a pile of glass lying on the ground, I grabbed all my things,

**[00:42:47]** I didn't even properly get dressed, and since we lived in Poděbrady,

**[00:42:51]** I walked—those who know it—there's a beautiful 8-kilometer path

**[00:42:55]** along the Elbe River, so I walked 8 kilometers in the dark still in my sweaty jersey

**[00:43:00]** to Březno, and even that two-hour walk in the dark didn't really help me,

**[00:43:04]** of course, the thought kept entering my head a hundred times that it was just a damn

**[00:43:10]** basketball game, it's just, as our colleagues from America say,

**[00:43:15]** just a sport, and when you invest a lot of energy,

**[00:43:19]** a lot of emotions, and you really work hard and want to achieve something,

**[00:43:23]** that no one has done before, and it's not just about you, maybe then

**[00:43:27]** I could have dealt with it somehow, but of course a person

**[00:43:30]** disappoints all the teammates who depended on me at that moment,

**[00:43:34]** many spectators, and many people around who were watching,

**[00:43:37]** and that was probably the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

**[00:43:40]** I got home, my wife tried to comfort me and she has good techniques for that,

**[00:43:46]** but it didn't really work.

**[00:43:50]** I didn't sleep all night, I kept thinking about it the next day,

**[00:43:55]** even the kids in the morning couldn't cheer me up.

**[00:43:58]** I was really consumed by that thought.

**[00:44:01]** And then paradoxically, I came to one key question,

**[00:44:05]** which, when I asked myself and was able to answer positively,

**[00:44:09]** suddenly all that weight fell off me.

**[00:44:13]** And since then, I use that question very often, and it is actually the question

**[00:44:17]** that is answered or hidden in this abbreviation.

**[00:44:21]** The question is whether I left everything on the court.

**[00:44:24]** That's how Kája imagines it, but that wasn't exactly what

**[00:44:27]** I had in mind.

**[00:44:33]** However, I like how thorough it is, how everything really lies there.

**[00:44:41]** So I actually asked myself this question.

**[00:44:44]** Did I leave everything on that court?

**[00:44:46]** The question may sound a bit silly or very simple.

**[00:44:50]** But at that moment, I was basically able to answer yes.

**[00:44:54]** That in terms of preparation for the game and everything

**[00:44:57]** that led to it, I did and fulfilled what I wanted.

**[00:45:01]** And people tell me, but I don't want to live my life

**[00:45:05]** always pushing at 120% all the time.

**[00:45:08]** But I try to explain to them, that's not what it's about.

**[00:45:11]** It's not about going until exhaustion.

**[00:45:14]** It can be, if that's how you imagine it.

**[00:45:17]** And this is actually what I've been talking about the whole time today.

**[00:45:23]** And I can show that on the summary of those three lessons.

**[00:45:27]** Because it's about opening your mind

**[00:45:31]** and realizing that our potential is basically limitless

**[00:45:35]** and we are able to push ourselves where we want,

**[00:45:38]** we look for our own ceiling,

**[00:45:40]** then you are able to set goals within it.

**[00:45:43]** Because then it becomes clear to you that if I can achieve so much,

**[00:45:46]** I will gladly set goals

**[00:45:48]** that I will gradually work towards and always grow

**[00:45:52]** and move forward.

**[00:45:54]** And if I set this and decide what I actually want to do

**[00:45:57]** and define for myself what success means to me,

**[00:46:00]** and also define my own path,

**[00:46:02]** then I am able with every task

**[00:46:06]** and whether you ask yourself this question once a day, once a week, or once a month,

**[00:46:10]** it doesn't matter, and if you can always answer it,

**[00:46:14]** I don't know if the weight I carried will fall off you,

**[00:46:18]** but you will definitely be able to say, yes, I did it the way I wanted.

**[00:46:23]** And for me, it should be that way, and I don't like the style

**[00:46:27]** that is sometimes talked about in personal development,

**[00:46:31]** which is imagining yourself on your deathbed,

**[00:46:34]** lying there and looking back on your life,

**[00:46:38]** talking about what you would have wanted to do,

**[00:46:41]** but for me, it works at least this way: I imagine

**[00:46:45]** that I am late in life, maybe rather than on a deathbed,

**[00:46:50]** I am sitting in a chair, but I want that when I ask myself the question,

**[00:46:55]** if I left everything I had on the field in my life,

**[00:46:58]** and if I actually went after what I defined for myself,

**[00:47:01]** and God forbid, that doesn't mean I achieved all my goals,

**[00:47:05]** because that's not realistic, we can't aim for perfection,

**[00:47:09]** but that at that moment I was basically doing everything for what I wanted.

**[00:47:14]** So, and because Honza in his social media posts

**[00:47:19]** said that it will not only be about personal development,

**[00:47:21]** but also about leadership and teamwork and everything,

**[00:47:24]** I added a plug here that asks,

**[00:47:27]** so where the heck is the leadership in all this.

**[00:47:30]** Well, leadership is actually everywhere.

**[00:47:33]** Because my philosophy, where I talk about leadership,

**[00:47:36]** is a very simple rule on which all leadership can function.

**[00:47:41]** And since I studied it, all those theories about it,

**[00:47:44]** what situational leadership is, what authentic leadership is,

**[00:47:46]** I obviously know all of that.

**[00:47:48]** And I'm not saying any of them are right or wrong.

**[00:47:51]** Everyone should find what suits them.

**[00:47:53]** But for me, the one ultimate rule in leadership is

**[00:47:57]** lead by example.

**[00:47:59]** That means leading by example.

**[00:48:01]** It means if I act in the way

**[00:48:05]** others should act.

**[00:48:07]** And it works not only in company leadership,

**[00:48:10]** but also in sports,

**[00:48:12]** and even in parenting.

**[00:48:14]** That means when I do the things I want

**[00:48:16]** my employees, colleagues, or children

**[00:48:20]** to somehow reflect back,

**[00:48:22]** I have to be the first to take that step.

**[00:48:24]** And doing the things we've been talking about from the start today,

**[00:48:28]** believing you can learn anything you want,

**[00:48:31]** and that you can theoretically achieve anything you want,

**[00:48:34]** and that you will pursue it and take the steps

**[00:48:37]** to achieve it, is actually the best leadership step

**[00:48:40]** you can take,

**[00:48:42]** because you show others that it is possible.

**[00:48:45]** And believe me, whether you are a leader,

**[00:48:49]** a manager, or not, people around you are watching.

**[00:48:52]** It's no coincidence that sayings exist,

**[00:48:54]** like you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,

**[00:48:59]** because that's basically how we operate, often unconsciously,

**[00:49:02]** like those bacteria,

**[00:49:04]** which Pepa Lhocký talked about here last time,

**[00:49:07]** we observe things we like in others,

**[00:49:11]** and also things we don't like, and somehow we take them in

**[00:49:14]** and reflect them back.

**[00:49:16]** So to answer briefly, leadership is actually

**[00:49:19]** everywhere.

**[00:49:21]** I was quick, but I'm not quite finished yet.

**[00:49:24]** I have a small request for you at the start,

**[00:49:27]** before we get to the questions, I've already done

**[00:49:30]** quite a few lectures of this type,

**[00:49:33]** but I've done even more meetings with small children

**[00:49:37]** During my career, I used to go around just showing

**[00:49:41]** kids things about basketball at various training camps,

**[00:49:44]** training sessions, meetings, even in schools and so on.

**[00:49:47]** And I would always get a question that somehow caught me off guard.

**[00:49:53]** Once I got a really tough one when a little boy asked me a question.

**[00:50:00]** He asked what my favorite weapon was.

**[00:50:05]** Please try to think about what you would answer an eight-year-old boy at that moment,

**[00:50:09]** because I remembered my own eight-year-old self, who was obsessed with ninja turtles,

**[00:50:14]** and I wanted to say nunchucks.

**[00:50:17]** I don't know if I was exactly eight then, but this is very authentic.

**[00:50:25]** So I didn't say nunchucks because that probably wouldn't be the most appropriate,

**[00:50:31]** and also because I was pretty sure the kids didn't really know those weapons.

**[00:50:37]** But then I thought for a moment and decided I wanted

**[00:50:40]** to educate the kids a bit and answered that my favorite weapon is the word.

**[00:50:44]** The kids stared at me a lot, so I had to explain it somehow.

**[00:50:49]** But I said, try to realize what good or harm you can do,

**[00:50:55]** often with just one word.

**[00:50:58]** And of course, now with kids in school and kindergarten, they observe this.

**[00:51:02]** You deal with it almost daily.

**[00:51:05]** Who said what to whom, who got upset, and who is not talking to whom again.

**[00:51:09]** I said that the way you use your words

**[00:51:14]** can do a lot of good, but also a lot of harm.

**[00:51:18]** That's why I use the space I get,

**[00:51:23]** to speak both to you and to many others.

**[00:51:27]** And actually, my request at the end is that just as I tried,

**[00:51:31]** with my words today, to give you at least a drop of inspiration

**[00:51:35]** and share my story, I would ask you,

**[00:51:38]** that when we finish and say goodbye today,

**[00:51:42]** at least for today, but maybe you'll start enjoying it,

**[00:51:45]** and I'm not saying you don't do it already, but if so, keep it up,

**[00:51:48]** when you go, try to use your words to help someone,

**[00:51:52]** to make someone's day better, not to ruin it,

**[00:51:57]** because sometimes we know how it can be.

**[00:51:59]** And actually, it just occurred to me unexpectedly,

**[00:52:02]** that yesterday I got a phone call that was very pleasant for many,

**[00:52:06]** or rather very unpleasant for many.

**[00:52:09]** A lady from the tax office called me and I had to explain.

**[00:52:15]** Some money that came to me from abroad,

**[00:52:19]** luckily I had a good explanation because I was playing there at the time,

**[00:52:22]** but afterwards it was still somehow dealt with,

**[00:52:25]** why I received so much money there and why I didn't pay taxes on it,

**[00:52:28]** so I explained when I paid taxes, how, and where.

**[00:52:32]** At the same time, the lady was very pleasant and then asked me,

**[00:52:36]** to write everything down in an email, send some documents,

**[00:52:39]** and I did just that.

**[00:52:41]** And at the end of the document, I wrote, thank you very much,

**[00:52:45]** for being very kind and pleasant,

**[00:52:48]** because I understand that during the whole day you must handle many calls like this,

**[00:52:52]** and the way people receive them is probably not the most pleasant,

**[00:52:57]** so I just want to thank you for resolving this

**[00:53:00]** in a calm and pleasant way, even though it could have been very unpleasant.

**[00:53:03]** And I just got a short reply back by email.

**[00:53:06]** Thank you very much, believe me, you really made my day better.

**[00:53:10]** And what did it cost me? Nothing? Two extra sentences?

**[00:53:14]** You find ways like that every day, just greet someone.

**[00:53:18]** Yes, you kindly greet someone and the other person doesn't even look at you

**[00:53:22]** and frowns at you.

**[00:53:24]** Some are like the cashier at Lidl when I asked her.

**[00:53:27]** It's great, you smile at everyone like that, people must like coming here,

**[00:53:30]** and she said, well, I annoy more people this way.

**[00:53:33]** So that’s also motivation, and a smile in the end is better

**[00:53:39]** than frowning, but I think we can find many ways.

**[00:53:44]** So again, thanks for the 50. Thank you very much.

**[00:53:54]** Can I move you a bit? Great, see you here.

**[00:53:59]** So, thank you very much. Many questions have already come in,

**[00:54:04]** and you should definitely keep asking, who is the best basketball player in Czech times.

**[00:54:11]** Michael Jordan or LeBron James?

**[00:54:13]** Michael Jordan.

**[00:54:14]** It's Michael Jordan, right? I thought so too.

**[00:54:16]** Ask me again in 10 years, maybe it will be different, but...

**[00:54:19]** That was the first question that immediately popped into my head.

**[00:54:23]** But before you start asking and I start answering...

**[00:54:29]** Actually, it came to me even before our hockey players were eliminated,

**[00:54:33]** now in the finals.

**[00:54:35]** What is actually the role of the captain in a team?

**[00:54:41]** The most important thing is to say whether we wear blue or red shirts that day.

**[00:54:46]** That's the basic thing the captain has to do.

**[00:54:49]** At least that was my role, a very pleasant one.

**[00:54:52]** Because you are responsible for making sure we all come dressed the same,

**[00:54:55]** so it looks like a team.

**[00:54:57]** But of course, it's a bit different in every team.

**[00:55:00]** I think I had quite a big role,

**[00:55:03]** considering I knew the coach well.

**[00:55:06]** And it's mostly that classic role, as they say,

**[00:55:09]** meaning the link between the coach and the team, the locker room.

**[00:55:12]** That means I would go and report on what was happening.

**[00:55:15]** But we mostly had a communication style set up,

**[00:55:18]** where the coach would come and say, how do you see it, we're after a long trip,

**[00:55:21]** we'll have training, then free time, then a walk, what do you think,

**[00:55:24]** how do the guys feel, how do you see it there.

**[00:55:26]** So I had quite a big role in that.

**[00:55:29]** So this mediation and easing of communication

**[00:55:32]** is probably the most important part.

**[00:55:34]** And besides that, there's also the duty,

**[00:55:37]** that you have to speak after the game, even if you played terribly.

**[00:55:40]** Definitely.

**[00:55:41]** Yes, it definitely comes up there.

**[00:55:44]** Because usually those who played well talk to those who did well.

**[00:55:47]** And if the captain has a bad game and is upset, they still have to speak,

**[00:55:50]** because you're the captain and the captain evaluates the game.

**[00:55:53]** So there are some pleasant and some less pleasant tasks.

**[00:55:57]** And that actually leads me to the second question.

**[00:56:02]** Like, generally, I’m somewhat into sports,

**[00:56:06]** but I still want to ask, when you meet someone

**[00:56:09]** who does it really well, like a top-level hockey or football player,

**[00:56:12]** what is the role of the coach there?

**[00:56:18]** Why?

**[00:56:20]** Why what?

**[00:56:23]** Like, why is the coach there at all?

**[00:56:25]** Like that.

**[00:56:27]** Well, why should someone like Eric Schmidt from Google,

**[00:56:31]** or these people have a coach?

**[00:56:33]** Well, first of all, we never know everything ourselves, that's clear.

**[00:56:37]** Secondly, the perspective of someone with experience and actually

**[00:56:41]** doesn't even necessarily have to have it, but knows how to ask the right questions

**[00:56:44]** and can see things I don't see at the moment,

**[00:56:47]** because we all have our blind spots, we all have places

**[00:56:50]** we can't see.

**[00:56:51]** So even that, and the paradox is that, and you often see it,

**[00:56:55]** because where else could Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal

**[00:56:58]** like chasing a coach when the best players are everything.

**[00:57:01]** It just really doesn't work for someone better than you to coach you,

**[00:57:03]** but the fact that someone isn't a better player,

**[00:57:07]** doesn't mean they can't be the best coach,

**[00:57:10]** or that they can't see things in you that you can still improve on,

**[00:57:13]** but of course, it's also about the player's personality,

**[00:57:17]** because you'll have players with egos so inflated,

**[00:57:21]** that they won't take any advice from the coach,

**[00:57:23]** and then the path slowly leads to hell,

**[00:57:27]** or they can never improve again,

**[00:57:29]** if they just ride the wave of their ego

**[00:57:32]** and refuse to listen.

**[00:57:34]** I'm asking it this way on purpose,

**[00:57:37]** because I want to get to the idea of what a coach really is,

**[00:57:40]** and when I did a little research,

**[00:57:43]** the image is of a shouting person,

**[00:57:46]** but the reality is completely different,

**[00:57:49]** and you nicely said

**[00:57:52]** that it's a coach who can ask you questions,

**[00:57:54]** who can look at you from a different perspective, and so on,

**[00:57:57]** and it's a slightly different role

**[00:57:59]** than someone who drills you on the court.

**[00:58:01]** But at the same time, there's a reason why that image is so ingrained,

**[00:58:04]** because many coaches still only see one thing,

**[00:58:07]** which is that I should just tell you,

**[00:58:09]** because I'm the coach,

**[00:58:11]** and it's the same in companies,

**[00:58:13]** so it's very easy for me to come into a company

**[00:58:15]** and use the analogy of a coach,

**[00:58:17]** because they know the boss there,

**[00:58:19]** who yells at them and holds their hand,

**[00:58:21]** telling them what and how to do things.

**[00:58:23]** In sports, or at least in basketball, we say

**[00:58:27]** when it's that type of coach.

**[00:58:29]** Meaning he has the controller

**[00:58:31]** and moves all of us on the court,

**[00:58:33]** there are many coaches who don't realize,

**[00:58:39]** that they can help the team much more,

**[00:58:41]** when they clearly define,

**[00:58:43]** who has which role,

**[00:58:45]** in which role they can operate,

**[00:58:47]** where they can best use their strengths,

**[00:58:49]** and on the other hand, when things aren't going well,

**[00:58:51]** they can guide you with the right questions and methods.

**[00:58:53]** And sometimes it's necessary,

**[00:58:55]** to kind of pull the player by the hand

**[00:58:57]** to the right place, that's what the coach is there for in the end,

**[00:58:59]** but when there's a bit more

**[00:59:01]** of the psychological coaching role from the coach's side,

**[00:59:03]** it can actually help the team

**[00:59:05]** much more.

**[00:59:07]** I'll actually go back a bit, because we talk a lot

**[00:59:09]** about children, upbringing, and so on.

**[00:59:11]** That means how important it is,

**[00:59:13]** because I've heard

**[00:59:15]** from friends about

**[00:59:17]** how good the coaches are,

**[00:59:19]** for example, in some football clubs,

**[00:59:21]** and on the other hand, somewhere else, it's just,

**[00:59:23]** like a huge tragedy, so they just put

**[00:59:25]** someone there, and I don't want to name names.

**[00:59:27]** But actually, in youth categories,

**[00:59:29]** it's kind of,

**[00:59:31]** it's noticeable that

**[00:59:33]** we don't have a very good foundation there, and we don't have to talk

**[00:59:35]** just about football, but about sports in general.

**[00:59:37]** Yeah, so from this

**[00:59:39]** everything comes,

**[00:59:41]** and now I have a fresh experience,

**[00:59:43]** I recently had as a guest on my podcast

**[00:59:45]** the former footballer Lukáš Pokorný,

**[00:59:47]** who ended his career at twenty-eight,

**[00:59:49]** because for ten years he struggled

**[00:59:51]** with whether he even enjoyed the game,

**[00:59:53]** whether he was doing what he wanted to do,

**[00:59:55]** or whether, similar to what I was talking about

**[00:59:59]** today he was talking about whether...

**[01:00:00]** he's only doing it because this environment somehow expected it

**[01:00:03]** and because he actually dreamed it as a kid back then

**[01:00:05]** and he became a professional footballer, so why would he

**[01:00:07]** leave it now.

**[01:00:08]** But actually, he said, when he looked back

**[01:00:10]** at his career, he said, well, I had

**[01:00:12]** a coach at fifteen or seventeen who

**[01:00:14]** on one hand I'm grateful to for pulling me up

**[01:00:16]** and giving me the opportunity, but on the other hand

**[01:00:18]** he measured every mistake

**[01:00:20]** and I did everything wrong, and he said

**[01:00:22]** since then I was absolutely afraid

**[01:00:24]** to do anything and that

**[01:00:26]** the whole week before a match I stressed out

**[01:00:28]** about messing up, making some

**[01:00:30]** mistake. So this is what it can

**[01:00:32]** cause. If I do this to a seventeen-year-old boy,

**[01:00:34]** what will it do to an eight or ten-year-old child.

**[01:00:36]** Whether it's a coach or a teacher.

**[01:00:38]** If every mistake is simply

**[01:00:40]** wrong, I won't learn to work with that mistake

**[01:00:42]** and I won't learn to appreciate that the mistake

**[01:00:44]** can push me forward. We all

**[01:00:46]** in Czechia know,

**[01:00:48]** you learn from mistakes,

**[01:00:50]** and who actually follows that? A few people, sure.

**[01:00:52]** But most don't,

**[01:00:54]** because here a mistake is a red

**[01:00:56]** pen, a mistake is an exclamation mark,

**[01:00:58]** a mistake is bad. And then it's like,

**[01:01:00]** but how should it be? And those few

**[01:01:02]** coaches, already experienced trainers,

**[01:01:04]** say the opposite, that when we're at

**[01:01:06]** training, this is where it should be tried,

**[01:01:08]** this is where we should practice, this is where we should improve.

**[01:01:10]** So if we are able

**[01:01:12]** to build it like this and start bringing it

**[01:01:14]** into schools, into youth coaches,

**[01:01:16]** and if parents are able,

**[01:01:18]** when the child spills something

**[01:01:20]** on the table because they just wanted

**[01:01:22]** to pour more themselves and do something on their own, then the child

**[01:01:24]** isn't scolded and is helped to clean it up and appreciated,

**[01:01:26]** because they wanted to have a moment of peace and do it

**[01:01:28]** on their own, so it

**[01:01:30]** starts, now it will be like

**[01:01:32]** that again, like I said at the beginning,

**[01:01:34]** the big fat claim, but this can

**[01:01:36]** change society from the ground up

**[01:01:38]** if children start perceiving things differently.

**[01:01:40]** I'll stay with the children,

**[01:01:42]** because here someone anonymous is asking.

**[01:01:44]** Anonymous woman. I tried

**[01:01:46]** to lead by example in parenting,

**[01:01:48]** but my daughter recently told me that I seemed

**[01:01:50]** too perfect to her, so she decided

**[01:01:52]** it was

**[01:01:54]** unattainable for her.

**[01:01:56]** Well, sure. And that's

**[01:01:58]** a nice parallel with leadership,

**[01:02:00]** how do you work for a boss

**[01:02:02]** who seems to know everything

**[01:02:04]** and never makes mistakes.

**[01:02:06]** But everyone makes mistakes, that's completely normal,

**[01:02:08]** parents make mistakes, but

**[01:02:10]** the mistake parents make is

**[01:02:12]** not showing

**[01:02:14]** those mistakes to their children.

**[01:02:16]** Because then I come across

**[01:02:18]** as that imperfection, and I myself

**[01:02:20]** have caught myself having an answer to every

**[01:02:22]** question children have, at least up to a certain

**[01:02:24]** age. Now I'm a bit lost.

**[01:02:26]** And then I think,

**[01:02:28]** but it doesn't have to be that when you know something,

**[01:02:30]** you say you don't know it.

**[01:02:32]** But when you don't know,

**[01:02:34]** you don't make up an answer or talk your way out of it

**[01:02:36]** and you don't explain it differently.

**[01:02:38]** I'll say, I don't know, let's take a look at it.

**[01:02:40]** But at the same time, it's about talking about your

**[01:02:42]** mistakes, right, this didn't work out for me,

**[01:02:44]** that and this, so that this perception

**[01:02:46]** doesn't exist. And it's good

**[01:02:48]** that it was actually able to

**[01:02:50]** describe and say this,

**[01:02:52]** because then it can open up in you

**[01:02:54]** and say, aha, but I made a mistake here,

**[01:02:56]** here. Because we want

**[01:02:58]** to appear as perfect

**[01:03:00]** parents, of course, because we think

**[01:03:02]** that's how we set a good example. And similarly,

**[01:03:04]** bosses often do this from the position,

**[01:03:06]** that I have to look in front of people,

**[01:03:08]** like I know what I'm talking about. How will it look,

**[01:03:10]** if I tell the people I'm supposed to advise on how to

**[01:03:12]** do something that I don't understand it.

**[01:03:14]** On the contrary, it's very powerful when you show those people

**[01:03:16]** and those kids,

**[01:03:18]** that you too

**[01:03:20]** have your gaps and can admit it,

**[01:03:22]** and then they much more often

**[01:03:24]** won't be afraid and will come to admit

**[01:03:26]** the mistake or ignorance themselves.

**[01:03:28]** Yeah, that's nice.

**[01:03:30]** I remember

**[01:03:32]** now a person who accepted it,

**[01:03:34]** when Kuba explained to me what an

**[01:03:36]** enchanted axe in Minecraft is.

**[01:03:38]** There I admitted that

**[01:03:40]** I really don't know,

**[01:03:42]** and he could show me.

**[01:03:44]** But my teacher, Jáno Koštura,

**[01:03:46]** who was also a guest here and I highly recommend that breakfast,

**[01:03:48]** he actually says that the moment

**[01:03:50]** there is a tree that covers all the others,

**[01:03:52]** no other tree can grow.

**[01:03:54]** That's basically it.

**[01:03:56]** And in companies, this is really very common.

**[01:04:00]** What is your life goal?

**[01:04:04]** How much time do we have?

**[01:04:06]** We have time.

**[01:04:12]** I'm going somewhere following those rules.

**[01:04:14]** Many of you probably know Simon Sinek.

**[01:04:16]** Today, his book is very well known

**[01:04:18]** and the lecture Start with Why.

**[01:04:20]** Start with Why.

**[01:04:22]** I have my own why,

**[01:04:24]** which I live by now, because I want

**[01:04:26]** through my example and sharing my knowledge,

**[01:04:28]** to help people

**[01:04:30]** understand what we did here today.

**[01:04:32]** That their potential

**[01:04:34]** is completely different from what they think it is.

**[01:04:36]** And by this, to help them

**[01:04:38]** to guide them on the path of self-improvement.

**[01:04:40]** So that's my reason,

**[01:04:42]** why I do many of the things

**[01:04:44]** that I do.

**[01:04:46]** And that's why I have those categories.

**[01:04:48]** I operate on a system,

**[01:04:50]** which is called

**[01:04:52]** system, I probably didn't say it quite right,

**[01:04:54]** which is an online program

**[01:04:56]** called Lifebook,

**[01:04:58]** which has 12 categories

**[01:05:00]** and in each of those categories

**[01:05:02]** you define

**[01:05:04]** what you think.

**[01:05:06]** Let's say, for example, there is

**[01:05:08]** a category health and fitness.

**[01:05:10]** What you think about that category,

**[01:05:12]** about health being important,

**[01:05:14]** that it can help you in other categories,

**[01:05:16]** but you define what you want to achieve,

**[01:05:18]** why you want to achieve it, and also

**[01:05:20]** the strategies. So we'd be here

**[01:05:22]** a long time if I listed my goals in all 12 categories,

**[01:05:24]** what I want to achieve. Somewhere it would be

**[01:05:26]** Maybe too personal, but

**[01:05:28]** maybe interesting to mention, and that's why

**[01:05:30]** I wanted each of you to

**[01:05:32]** set one goal. It looks here

**[01:05:34]** like you set big goals,

**[01:05:36]** and it seems like it's a lot

**[01:05:38]** with 12 categories each having several goals.

**[01:05:40]** And then the program

**[01:05:42]** works beautifully like a funnel,

**[01:05:44]** so what comes out of it, I have about

**[01:05:46]** 12 plus 1, because I like

**[01:05:48]** 13,

**[01:05:50]** so I have

**[01:05:52]** 13 daily

**[01:05:54]** habits, let's say, and goals

**[01:05:56]** that I fulfill, and in the style of Petr

**[01:05:58]** Ludvík, a checklist, I

**[01:06:00]** tick off whether I met them that day

**[01:06:02]** or not, so

**[01:06:04]** maybe I have it here for those interested

**[01:06:06]** and I’ll show what I’m already crazy about

**[01:06:08]** every day. Maybe

**[01:06:10]** you’re already answering the next question Lukáš asks,

**[01:06:12]** whether it’s good to set small

**[01:06:14]** goals for an ordinary weekday,

**[01:06:16]** for example, what kind?

**[01:06:18]** I think it’s good to set big goals,

**[01:06:20]** but at the same time be able to

**[01:06:22]** break them down

**[01:06:24]** into things you do every day.

**[01:06:26]** Or at least, at least

**[01:06:28]** regularly.

**[01:06:30]** Did I answer that, or was there

**[01:06:32]** some kind of addition?

**[01:06:34]** Or what kind of small goals?

**[01:06:36]** For an ordinary weekday,

**[01:06:38]** like making someone happy.

**[01:06:40]** Simple.

**[01:06:46]** I have it there, but it's

**[01:06:48]** strange, I kind of have it there

**[01:06:50]** I actually have to,

**[01:06:52]** that day I have to,

**[01:06:54]** it's what I want to do and that day, so I can

**[01:06:56]** check off the day, I actually have

**[01:06:58]** two options there.

**[01:07:00]** One is

**[01:07:02]** a random act of kindness, which means

**[01:07:04]** doing a good deed,

**[01:07:06]** even though it sounds weird, or making someone laugh.

**[01:07:08]** If that day I made someone laugh with something, thank you, I can check it off today,

**[01:07:10]** I've managed it a few times,

**[01:07:12]** so

**[01:07:14]** I can check it off.

**[01:07:16]** So I have that, but I also have

**[01:07:20]** something obviously important, how you start

**[01:07:22]** your morning, so I have

**[01:07:24]** sometimes it's really, it sounds like twelve things,

**[01:07:26]** but some you can complete in just a minute.

**[01:07:28]** And now

**[01:07:30]** I have a new habit,

**[01:07:32]** which many of you will

**[01:07:34]** find completely silly.

**[01:07:36]** Embroidery.

**[01:07:38]** I haven't quite gotten there yet, it's girly embroidery.

**[01:07:40]** And

**[01:07:42]** I heard somewhere,

**[01:07:44]** I wanted to try it, that

**[01:07:46]** in the morning, when you're in the bathroom,

**[01:07:48]** Mel Robbins is the author

**[01:07:50]** who talks about it, sorry,

**[01:07:52]** she talks about giving yourself

**[01:07:54]** a high five in the mirror.

**[01:07:56]** It's really hard at first

**[01:07:58]** to do, just look at yourself in the mirror

**[01:08:00]** and quietly say to yourself or out loud how good it feels,

**[01:08:08]** like, today is just going to be a good day.

**[01:08:10]** Today you do it and then like give a high five

**[01:08:12]** to the mirror. I do it differently though,

**[01:08:14]** after I take

**[01:08:16]** a cold shower in the morning,

**[01:08:18]** which is part of my morning routine,

**[01:08:20]** I give myself a self high five like this,

**[01:08:22]** like, what was it,

**[01:08:24]** Hawaii Meteor Mother, she did it like this,

**[01:08:26]** so that's

**[01:08:28]** my way. I don't want to wait,

**[01:08:30]** I prefer to give it to myself.

**[01:08:32]** And in the shower in the morning,

**[01:08:34]** I probably wouldn't get it at that time,

**[01:08:36]** when I'm there.

**[01:08:38]** So I have a few small ones like that,

**[01:08:40]** definitely, because I think it's

**[01:08:42]** an underestimated thing, that when we,

**[01:08:44]** we feel that if we don't do

**[01:08:46]** something big, some kind of

**[01:08:48]** massive action, then we actually do nothing,

**[01:08:50]** but the small habits that accumulate over time,

**[01:08:52]** have a much bigger effect.

**[01:08:54]** Actually a bit

**[01:08:56]** for people who don't do this,

**[01:08:58]** these motivational techniques

**[01:09:00]** are actually something

**[01:09:02]** really strange.

**[01:09:04]** Sometimes you say, hey, today I'm going to have a good day, or something like that,

**[01:09:06]** but actually athletes,

**[01:09:08]** who use mental

**[01:09:10]** coaches and so on, it's quite

**[01:09:12]** common now.

**[01:09:14]** When you say

**[01:09:16]** strange, I remembered a very similar thing to that

**[01:09:18]** Self High Five. There's another one,

**[01:09:20]** and I admit, I couldn't do it,

**[01:09:22]** it's from

**[01:09:24]** another American speaker,

**[01:09:26]** she says, look at yourself

**[01:09:28]** into the mirror, which is really interesting.

**[01:09:30]** You can't look into both eyes in the mirror,

**[01:09:32]** you have to choose one eye.

**[01:09:34]** So look into one

**[01:09:36]** eye and tell yourself that you love yourself.

**[01:09:38]** I love myself,

**[01:09:40]** but I can't do this.

**[01:09:42]** I can't say it to myself

**[01:09:44]** looking into one eye. For me,

**[01:09:46]** it's not really comfortable.

**[01:09:48]** And that's the point, that you try some things and actually

**[01:09:50]** you find out. I didn't answer you at all on that.

**[01:09:54]** But yes, in sports,

**[01:09:56]** it's common,

**[01:09:58]** it's common,

**[01:10:00]** it's common.

**[01:10:00]** A little hobby task, I write my hashtag on LinkedIn every week.

**[01:10:06]** I've even learned to use hashtags, very trendy.

**[01:10:09]** Hashtag InSportirace, I made up a nonsense word,

**[01:10:13]** like inspiration from sports.

**[01:10:15]** Yesterday I wrote about visualizations,

**[01:10:17]** because David Svoboda, the Olympic gold medalist from London,

**[01:10:22]** knew from the age of twelve that he would win a gold medal

**[01:10:24]** and imagined standing on the podium,

**[01:10:26]** wearing the medal, with people there and the anthem playing.

**[01:10:29]** He didn't even know what sport he would do yet,

**[01:10:31]** but 14 years later he actually had that medal there.

**[01:10:34]** And he said it was incredible.

**[01:10:36]** I was standing where I wanted to be.

**[01:10:37]** So the people there were probably different

**[01:10:39]** than he imagined, but that’s not so important anymore.

**[01:10:41]** But it’s actually quite normal to work like that.

**[01:10:44]** Maybe every child did it and it meant something, or not.

**[01:10:47]** I just imagined on the court,

**[01:10:49]** that I was playing against Michael Jordan,

**[01:10:50]** because that was a hit when I started thinking about it,

**[01:10:53]** that he was defending me, that I was playing with him.

**[01:10:55]** So it’s somehow naturally there,

**[01:10:58]** but today in sports psychology

**[01:11:00]** and mental coaching it’s known,

**[01:11:02]** how powerful it can be

**[01:11:04]** and it's used completely routinely.

**[01:11:07]** Actually, I want to add to that,

**[01:11:09]** because you often, in your podcast,

**[01:11:12]** where you invite people from the sports environment,

**[01:11:14]** athletes and so on, when you manage to,

**[01:11:20]** the topic you focus on a lot

**[01:11:22]** and want to continue focusing on in the future.

**[01:11:24]** Well, sports is very specific in this regard,

**[01:11:27]** especially professional sports,

**[01:11:29]** that maybe you don't have in any other job,

**[01:11:32]** or I don't know, maybe only in retirement age,

**[01:11:35]** but in sports, depending on the sport,

**[01:11:38]** it's usually around 35, unless you're Jagr.

**[01:11:41]** Fifty.

**[01:11:45]** But the stop comes in some way.

**[01:11:49]** So you consciously have to prepare for it,

**[01:11:52]** or at least you should,

**[01:11:54]** that at 35 you simply won't be able to do

**[01:11:57]** what might have been your greatest passion

**[01:11:59]** and what you feel you were born for,

**[01:12:01]** because you'll still work for another 30 years

**[01:12:03]** in some way and probably do something else.

**[01:12:06]** You can stay involved in sports somehow,

**[01:12:09]** but it will hardly fulfill you the same way.

**[01:12:13]** But that doesn't mean you can't find challenges elsewhere.

**[01:12:16]** I actually found them

**[01:12:18]** and everyone will have a different path that works for them.

**[01:12:20]** And it's about starting to think about it.

**[01:12:23]** And I'm not saying, and people can do,

**[01:12:25]** and maybe they're often afraid of it,

**[01:12:27]** and I don't blame them, because the end in sports

**[01:12:29]** is quite scary because of that,

**[01:12:31]** doing something and feeling

**[01:12:33]** that you'll do it for another 40 years

**[01:12:35]** and not being sure if that's what you want to do.

**[01:12:38]** But when you start,

**[01:12:40]** you don't have to make a drastic cut

**[01:12:42]** and just go do something else,

**[01:12:44]** but when you gradually prepare for it like I did,

**[01:12:47]** and I've been doing it for five years,

**[01:12:49]** and I haven't completely stopped with basketball yet,

**[01:12:51]** but I was somehow preparing for where I would go,

**[01:12:53]** so it would be gradual.

**[01:12:55]** So it wouldn't be such a shock.

**[01:12:57]** Here's a question,

**[01:12:59]** when did you realize what you wanted to focus on

**[01:13:01]** after your professional career?

**[01:13:03]** How was it for you?

**[01:13:05]** Because your departure wasn't very abrupt either.

**[01:13:10]** Well, I actually don't know,

**[01:13:12]** if I ever realized it

**[01:13:14]** at any specific moment.

**[01:13:16]** Here something caught my attention,

**[01:13:18]** there I liked something,

**[01:13:20]** I often watched TED Talks and stuff while crocheting on the way,

**[01:13:22]** because I enjoyed it.

**[01:13:24]** And I thought, wherever this leads, it's great.

**[01:13:26]** Sometimes I came across an athlete

**[01:13:28]** who talked about sports

**[01:13:30]** and interesting things they experienced there,

**[01:13:32]** and the inspiration from their story,

**[01:13:34]** but at the same time they shared

**[01:13:36]** and talked about leadership lessons.

**[01:13:38]** I found that really interesting,

**[01:13:40]** so I just watched and thought,

**[01:13:42]** no one really does this in the Czech environment.

**[01:13:44]** I thought maybe it's interesting, maybe sports

**[01:13:46]** are somehow relatable to people.

**[01:13:48]** And so the path gradually started to unfold,

**[01:13:50]** and looking back, describing my last two or three years,

**[01:13:52]** where everything has moved for me.

**[01:13:54]** Someone who hadn't seen me for a while

**[01:13:56]** asked what had happened to me.

**[01:13:58]** And when I started describing it, I just said,

**[01:14:00]** it's actually unbelievable,

**[01:14:02]** how big the changes have been,

**[01:14:04]** and that's how he summed it up.

**[01:14:10]** He says, you're really lucky,

**[01:14:12]** how these opportunities actually come to you.

**[01:14:14]** I say, no way.

**[01:14:16]** I say, it's like,

**[01:14:18]** maybe it's a cliché,

**[01:14:20]** I don't know,

**[01:14:22]** who is prepared,

**[01:14:24]** is not surprised or some nonsense like that,

**[01:14:26]** but I just gradually uncovered it

**[01:14:28]** and I say, what if this person came to you

**[01:14:30]** and said,

**[01:14:32]** that they would just go with you and give lectures,

**[01:14:34]** would you go? Would you be ready for that?

**[01:14:36]** Not at all. I say, see.

**[01:14:38]** But I was at that moment, because I knew,

**[01:14:44]** that he was gradually revealing himself to them,

**[01:14:46]** gradually preparing for them,

**[01:14:48]** so the opportunities then came

**[01:14:50]** and some I even asked Honza for a meeting

**[01:14:52]** and we walked for two hours in the forest park

**[01:14:54]** and he says, come on, keep filming for Edu

**[01:14:56]** and then he says, or I'll invite you sometime for breakfast

**[01:14:58]** or something, yeah.

**[01:15:00]** He just does that sometimes, and that's beautiful.

**[01:15:02]** That was the visualization you saw here.

**[01:15:04]** At fourteen, I saw myself walking with Honza in the forest park.

**[01:15:08]** Many people here have that.

**[01:15:16]** I have here, and this is important,

**[01:15:18]** where to find healthy limits,

**[01:15:20]** how not to overtrain, how not to overshoot goals.

**[01:15:28]** That's hard.

**[01:15:30]** For me, trial and error worked.

**[01:15:32]** Unfortunately, I had the disadvantage that,

**[01:15:36]** at the time when I was kind of,

**[01:15:38]** as I said, working on myself,

**[01:15:42]** or at least in the Czech environment

**[01:15:46]** and I didn't have many sources or information

**[01:15:48]** about what and how to do things.

**[01:15:50]** So I found that one basketball player

**[01:15:52]** with kilo weights on his ankles

**[01:15:54]** he jumped rope 7,000 times a day.

**[01:15:56]** So I did 5,000 a day without weights.

**[01:15:58]** I managed it for three days

**[01:16:00]** and on the fourth day I got shin splints

**[01:16:02]** and didn’t walk for two days.

**[01:16:04]** So that was complete nonsense again.

**[01:16:06]** Today, there are more ways to find out

**[01:16:08]** and people who can monitor you.

**[01:16:10]** And having a personal trainer

**[01:16:12]** at the gym, as we discussed,

**[01:16:14]** is also a big advantage,

**[01:16:16]** because they guide you to do it healthily and properly.

**[01:16:18]** So in between, and for example, now I have,

**[01:16:20]** I can already tell on myself,

**[01:16:22]** because over time

**[01:16:24]** I know my body well and can tell

**[01:16:26]** when it’s too much

**[01:16:28]** and even though I think

**[01:16:30]** sometimes the mind

**[01:16:32]** says it’s too much, and sometimes

**[01:16:34]** it could still go on. It’s really hard

**[01:16:36]** to figure that out, so sometimes it’s good to have

**[01:16:38]** someone who says, hey, this is really

**[01:16:40]** too much now. Because I often

**[01:16:42]** overdid it and it wasn’t good afterwards.

**[01:16:44]** The analogy comes between

**[01:16:46]** the company and the sport,

**[01:16:48]** and we’ve talked about it several times,

**[01:16:50]** that in sports, the vast majority

**[01:16:52]** is training and recovery, and only

**[01:16:54]** a small percentage is the actual match.

**[01:16:56]** But in a company, it’s constant struggle,

**[01:16:58]** and there’s little time or space

**[01:17:00]** for recovery and training.

**[01:17:02]** And now I’m looking at all

**[01:17:04]** the people who do education

**[01:17:06]** in companies and such, and

**[01:17:08]** when you compare the parameters,

**[01:17:10]** it just doesn’t add up.

**[01:17:12]** There are actually two things.

**[01:17:14]** In sports, it started to be recognized

**[01:17:16]** and before, it was also like

**[01:17:18]** let's just push like Zátopek, hold on completely

**[01:17:20]** with strength and three-hour

**[01:17:22]** trainings every day, and when you sleep at night,

**[01:17:24]** you rest.

**[01:17:26]** And it began to be understood what it does to the body

**[01:17:28]** and how, on the contrary, it needs to be

**[01:17:30]** dosed reasonably. And it started

**[01:17:32]** to come up with the idea, well, let's take the time

**[01:17:34]** we save and purposefully dedicate it to

**[01:17:36]** resting. There are different kinds of rest,

**[01:17:38]** the classic ones where you rest physically,

**[01:17:40]** and it started to be realized that it's good

**[01:17:42]** to rest mentally and emotionally as well.

**[01:17:44]** That's one thing, which is great when

**[01:17:46]** it starts to show up in the

**[01:17:48]** corporate environment, that they realize

**[01:17:50]** the need to take breaks

**[01:17:52]** during the day and pauses

**[01:17:54]** and to think about it a bit more.

**[01:17:56]** And the second thing is how

**[01:17:58]** to actually train when you work all day

**[01:18:00]** and it should be a full day of performance.

**[01:18:02]** Well, I don't know if you can really

**[01:18:04]** call it a trick, but

**[01:18:06]** the way they manage to do it is that

**[01:18:08]** in almost any job you can find something,

**[01:18:10]** I can't say it universally,

**[01:18:12]** where you can take part of your work and turn it into

**[01:18:14]** training. That means, I don't know, I have to do

**[01:18:16]** a presentation in front of the boss,

**[01:18:18]** so I find,

**[01:18:20]** while preparing the presentation, I take

**[01:18:22]** a colleague, hey, come see how

**[01:18:24]** I'm doing this, you can give me quick feedback,

**[01:18:26]** just the usual training parameters.

**[01:18:28]** It means setting what I want to achieve in that training,

**[01:18:32]** to have someone, a coach, a colleague,

**[01:18:34]** who gives me that feedback.

**[01:18:36]** It's more about finding ways,

**[01:18:38]** how everyone in their specific job

**[01:18:40]** can find time and ways to

**[01:18:42]** train, because, yes, even though the company

**[01:18:44]** provides education, it's just once

**[01:18:46]** a month and that's simply not enough.

**[01:18:48]** I actually really like it,

**[01:18:50]** when I go through,

**[01:18:52]** because I'm your big fan, you know,

**[01:18:54]** to the max,

**[01:18:56]** whether it's on Edu or your show,

**[01:18:58]** but now I actually get to Edu,

**[01:19:00]** where you have exactly those clips, like energy,

**[01:19:02]** mistake, criticism, etc. And actually you talk about it here,

**[01:19:04]** and there it's so beautifully condensed that I

**[01:19:06]** really take a lot from it.

**[01:19:08]** Even the energy you talk about, that there are actually three

**[01:19:10]** types of energy and how to work with them,

**[01:19:12]** and I feel that

**[01:19:14]** the training,

**[01:19:16]** which you mentioned there, and the feedback

**[01:19:18]** is another thing we

**[01:19:20]** really lack. We don't know how to give feedback when it's deserved,

**[01:19:22]** and we don't know how to give it when it's not,

**[01:19:24]** so we don't really progress much.

**[01:19:26]** So these are basically the classic parameters

**[01:19:28]** of training, as Anders Eriksson talks about,

**[01:19:30]** who is a professor that

**[01:19:32]** studied people for 30 years who

**[01:19:34]** perform, his book is called

**[01:19:36]** Peak, and people who perform

**[01:19:38]** Peak performance, meaning

**[01:19:40]** performances at the highest level, and he researched

**[01:19:42]** how they actually reached that highest level,

**[01:19:44]** and he said that all of them, of course,

**[01:19:46]** spent a lot of time on it,

**[01:19:48]** but at the same time, just doing it

**[01:19:52]** a certain amount of time did not yet mean,

**[01:19:54]** that they became very good at it,

**[01:19:56]** but rather that

**[01:19:58]** they did a specific type of training,

**[01:20:00]** which he calls Deliberate Practice,

**[01:20:02]** meaning some purposeful training, let's say in Czech.

**[01:20:05]** And there are exactly those parameters I mentioned.

**[01:20:07]** That means the training is designed in a certain way,

**[01:20:09]** it has a purpose, there is quick feedback,

**[01:20:11]** and at the same time an important element is that

**[01:20:13]** you always step out of your comfort zone,

**[01:20:16]** which today is somewhat risky to say.

**[01:20:18]** Many people are allergic to that,

**[01:20:20]** everyone must step out of their comfort zone.

**[01:20:23]** And it's not about going too far from what you know,

**[01:20:26]** but stepping out a little and doing something

**[01:20:28]** you actually don't fully know yet,

**[01:20:30]** because logically, that's the only way to learn something.

**[01:20:33]** If you always did the same thing, it would be hard to progress.

**[01:20:36]** Actually, when I talk again with people

**[01:20:39]** who really understand education

**[01:20:41]** and some didactics, analogies,

**[01:20:43]** that edge is exactly where a good teacher should keep you.

**[01:20:46]** Not too sick there, not too sick there.

**[01:20:49]** When my boys do something, they just finish it in two minutes.

**[01:20:52]** And I said, hey, so like...

**[01:20:54]** And it's decent.

**[01:20:56]** How to maintain discipline and this strong will?

**[01:21:02]** Here.

**[01:21:04]** How to maintain discipline and strong will?

**[01:21:06]** In what?

**[01:21:08]** No, it's actually quite simple.

**[01:21:10]** You just need to know why you're doing it.

**[01:21:13]** That's the entire source of internal motivation.

**[01:21:16]** When you get to the core of it,

**[01:21:19]** why you do this particular activity,

**[01:21:21]** why you want to do it.

**[01:21:22]** That's why it's good to take the goal

**[01:21:24]** and always say it to yourself

**[01:21:26]** and go deep into it.

**[01:21:28]** Because the moment I don't feel like putting on those shoes

**[01:21:30]** and going for a run, I come back to my

**[01:21:32]** reason, that I want to be fit

**[01:21:34]** so I can carry my kids on my back.

**[01:21:37]** And I know running is the means to that.

**[01:21:39]** So I tell myself, I really want to be able at fifty

**[01:21:41]** to be with my kids and just hike in the mountains.

**[01:21:44]** Whatever it is, you define it there.

**[01:21:46]** So get back within reach of your why

**[01:21:50]** and pull motivation from that.

**[01:21:52]** I actually admire you

**[01:21:54]** for educating yourself in different areas.

**[01:21:58]** I think last time I felt

**[01:21:59]** you said you started playing piano.

**[01:22:01]** Crocheting, piano, this sport, that one.

**[01:22:04]** I even bake.

**[01:22:06]** That's great.

**[01:22:07]** But you know, that's exactly about

**[01:22:09]** greatly broadening your horizons.

**[01:22:11]** And I know you don't just glance twice and learn,

**[01:22:13]** but you really go all in,

**[01:22:15]** set a goal, watch YouTube, and go for it.

**[01:22:17]** I think that also means,

**[01:22:20]** once you learn how to learn,

**[01:22:23]** each new skill becomes easier

**[01:22:24]** because you've been through the process before.

**[01:22:27]** Tomáš Hruda talks about that too.

**[01:22:29]** So do you feel that with a new skill,

**[01:22:31]** like learning a new language or something,

**[01:22:34]** it's easier for you

**[01:22:36]** after you've done it several times?

**[01:22:37]** I've never really had a problem with that,

**[01:22:39]** because I simply enjoyed learning new things.

**[01:22:41]** I never forced myself.

**[01:22:45]** For example, I didn't enjoy learning violin,

**[01:22:47]** but I've always admired piano players.

**[01:22:49]** On the other hand, I have to admit,

**[01:22:51]** I'm slacking off quite a bit now, honestly.

**[01:22:57]** I don't have a fixed goal there,

**[01:23:00]** like wanting to play a sonata in a year.

**[01:23:02]** I don't have that.

**[01:23:03]** But I do have, among the things I mentioned,

**[01:23:06]** that I do every day,

**[01:23:07]** I have every day,

**[01:23:09]** that I want to actually learn something new.

**[01:23:12]** Whether it's that...

**[01:23:13]** And I have an hour every day.

**[01:23:15]** Whether it's just reading for an hour

**[01:23:17]** or listening to some podcast,

**[01:23:18]** from which I learn something,

**[01:23:19]** and if I don't feel like it,

**[01:23:22]** then I might put in some piano practice.

**[01:23:24]** Because I also consider that

**[01:23:25]** as learning something new and progressing.

**[01:23:27]** But I always do things and learn things

**[01:23:29]** that I enjoy.

**[01:23:31]** So I've never really had a problem

**[01:23:33]** with dealing with whether

**[01:23:35]** I'm getting better at it or not.

**[01:23:37]** It just kind of happens automatically.

**[01:23:39]** And the spread always takes me somewhere.

**[01:23:41]** I haven't crocheted for two years,

**[01:23:44]** because now it's just...

**[01:23:46]** Something else is there now.

**[01:23:48]** I just remember,

**[01:23:49]** that you actually brought those cakes to Equilibrium,

**[01:23:52]** but you didn't bake them, right?

**[01:23:54]** Were they yours?

**[01:23:55]** I had them made for my birthday.

**[01:23:56]** That's a must.

**[01:23:58]** How to work with other players,

**[01:24:00]** who were resistant,

**[01:24:01]** for example, would be an example.

**[01:24:03]** That means, they do their own thing,

**[01:24:05]** maybe I understand your opinion on it,

**[01:24:07]** but they don't care.

**[01:24:08]** Throw them out.

**[01:24:09]** Yeah.

**[01:24:10]** Of course, there is like...

**[01:24:12]** And the parallel exists in companies too.

**[01:24:14]** I often deal with a topic,

**[01:24:15]** which is very current.

**[01:24:18]** I collectively call it the bad apple.

**[01:24:20]** That means what to do,

**[01:24:21]** when you actually have a toxic member in the company.

**[01:24:24]** And I always put on a slide beautiful pictures

**[01:24:28]** And that's why it's really hard to put together a team,

**[01:24:31]** whether in sports or anywhere else.

**[01:24:32]** Because the chemistry has to be right for it to work,

**[01:24:35]** and it's hard when there's someone like that,

**[01:24:38]** who says no to everything,

**[01:24:39]** everything is rubbish,

**[01:24:41]** and this is not how it's done.

**[01:24:42]** And says things like that.

**[01:24:44]** That means trying to convince them

**[01:24:46]** and bring them over to your side,

**[01:24:47]** and if not,

**[01:24:50]** then for everyone involved,

**[01:24:52]** and often even for that person,

**[01:24:54]** definitely say,

**[01:24:56]** go somewhere where your ideas won't seem so stupid,

**[01:24:57]** and where it might suit you better.

**[01:24:58]** And very often it turns out,

**[01:25:00]** that the player who didn't fit in that team,

**[01:25:02]** goes somewhere else and becomes a star,

**[01:25:06]** because it suits them better there.

**[01:25:08]** I'll actually go back a bit to what you said, the story,

**[01:25:31]** when you were alone on that stationary bike.

**[01:25:34]** And just to make sure I understand,

**[01:25:36]** because I know that you are

**[01:25:38]** a FAN and actually special forces

**[01:25:40]** and how it works there,

**[01:25:42]** that it's something you really draw from.

**[01:25:44]** So the coach came to you

**[01:25:46]** so that you would bring the others,

**[01:25:48]** the other teammates.

**[01:25:50]** Did I get that right?

**[01:25:52]** That's powerful for me.

**[01:25:54]** That's good.

**[01:25:55]** It was actually there,

**[01:25:57]** but at that moment I just realized,

**[01:25:59]** how to push them even further,

**[01:26:01]** when they see,

**[01:26:03]** and when I'm there, I improve.

**[01:26:05]** And it was interesting in that,

**[01:26:07]** I started, how should I say,

**[01:26:09]** more or less at a similar level,

**[01:26:11]** as many of the teammates

**[01:26:13]** and after a year I was in a completely different place.

**[01:26:15]** What else could it have been but that,

**[01:26:17]** I was simply doing more things,

**[01:26:19]** than they were, than we did together in training.

**[01:26:21]** What challenging situation

**[01:26:23]** did you face as team captain

**[01:26:25]** and how did you handle it?

**[01:26:27]** No middleman.

**[01:26:29]** One teammate came to me,

**[01:26:33]** when he discovered Tinder

**[01:26:35]** and said,

**[01:26:37]** we're only here at the hotel

**[01:26:39]** for four nights

**[01:26:41]** and I have five matches.

**[01:26:43]** What should I do?

**[01:26:45]** I said, cold shower, a few slaps,

**[01:26:47]** and some simple math.

**[01:26:49]** But even things like that

**[01:26:51]** I had to deal with.

**[01:26:53]** But that's interesting,

**[01:26:55]** that means,

**[01:26:57]** that people really come to you,

**[01:26:59]** teammates come to you

**[01:27:01]** like to an author, to a confessor,

**[01:27:03]** and to the one who...

**[01:27:05]** Is that right? Is that the role of the captain?

**[01:27:07]** I kind of compare it to something like HR in a company

**[01:27:09]** or a pastor.

**[01:27:11]** Is it half like that?

**[01:27:13]** I think it's more

**[01:27:15]** maybe the other way around, because I'm the type

**[01:27:17]** of person they knew,

**[01:27:19]** that, for example, and of course later,

**[01:27:21]** when I was 20,

**[01:27:23]** they came to me because they knew

**[01:27:25]** I had some experience,

**[01:27:27]** but at the same time I was already the kind of person

**[01:27:29]** and maybe that's why I got the captain role,

**[01:27:31]** because it's part of it

**[01:27:33]** and sometimes you have to handle conflicts,

**[01:27:35]** when there's a fight in the team,

**[01:27:37]** and you have to know how to help,

**[01:27:39]** because the coach can intervene minimally

**[01:27:41]** or should intervene minimally.

**[01:27:43]** Because if from the author position

**[01:27:45]** he makes a cut,

**[01:27:47]** it's not good for the team

**[01:27:49]** and it will come back somehow.

**[01:27:51]** So you had to

**[01:27:53]** intervene in those situations often too.

**[01:27:55]** We're approaching the end.

**[01:27:57]** What is important to include in raising children,

**[01:27:59]** besides leading by example?

**[01:28:01]** Lukáš asks.

**[01:28:03]** I'm glad for the question,

**[01:28:05]** which I haven't been asked yet

**[01:28:07]** and I saw

**[01:28:09]** that it would come.

**[01:28:11]** I would include time in that.

**[01:28:13]** Because to me, that's the most valuable thing.

**[01:28:15]** And yes, we know

**[01:28:17]** books and advice like

**[01:28:19]** five love languages.

**[01:28:21]** It means everyone

**[01:28:23]** actually perceives

**[01:28:25]** love in a different way.

**[01:28:27]** So, some people like receiving gifts,

**[01:28:29]** some appreciate

**[01:28:31]** physical touch,

**[01:28:33]** some just like being

**[01:28:35]** praised, and others

**[01:28:37]** feel it most through quality time.

**[01:28:39]** And I think that's actually

**[01:28:41]** the most valuable thing we can give, because

**[01:28:43]** we can set an example by

**[01:28:45]** being great businesspeople

**[01:28:47]** and earning lots of money,

**[01:28:49]** but if we don't spend time with them,

**[01:28:51]** what kind of example does that set?

**[01:28:53]** That's what I would invest in.

**[01:28:55]** We can be lofty and put love into it,

**[01:28:57]** and I believe that's a given.

**[01:28:59]** And for me, the best way to show it

**[01:29:01]** is by spending time with them.

**[01:29:03]** Then you'll quickly understand

**[01:29:05]** how your kids perceive love differently

**[01:29:07]** and what they want from you. It's fun to watch,

**[01:29:09]** because each of my three kids

**[01:29:11]** perceives it completely differently and wants to do

**[01:29:13]** something different. Some just

**[01:29:15]** prefer to sit next to me,

**[01:29:17]** each reading a book,

**[01:29:19]** and that suits them perfectly,

**[01:29:21]** while with others I have to climb trees with them

**[01:29:23]** to make that time fulfilling.

**[01:29:25]** I wanted to ask you another question,

**[01:29:27]** but I won't. Thank you very much.

**[01:29:29]** I'd like to end with this.

**[01:29:31]** Really, thanks for this.

**[01:29:33]** So let's take some time. Pavel,

**[01:29:35]** thank you very much for making time,

**[01:29:37]** for answering.

**[01:29:39]** Thanks.

**[01:29:45]** Thank you very much as well,

**[01:29:47]** for sticking with us

**[01:29:49]** and I hope you enjoyed it,

**[01:29:51]** because we have advice

**[01:29:53]** feedback and we treat this as

**[01:29:55]** training, so try to vote,

**[01:29:57]** whether you liked today's breakfast.

**[01:30:00]** One option is that you liked it, the other is that we just got older here and it was pointless,

**[01:30:05]** so we'd appreciate it, you can of course vote, either in the slide app,

**[01:30:09]** again under the broadcast, so we can take a look, yes, yes, yes, something is showing up,

**[01:30:16]** so thank you very much. And so we don't run over time, I actually

**[01:30:23]** want to challenge you, as Pavel said, to set one goal,

**[01:30:28]** to proceed in small steps, and it pays off for us,

**[01:30:32]** that after the breakfast happens, either with your team

**[01:30:37]** or with your family, or just with your close ones, make a circle

**[01:30:40]** and talk about what the breakfast gave you. We have prepared for you

**[01:30:44]** a form with some aha moments and so on, and of course,

**[01:30:48]** you can share it also through the Edu platform, but we didn't slack off

**[01:30:53]** and included a regular Brain and Brain Digestive,

**[01:30:56]** where we talk about it, but not only with Pavel,

**[01:31:01]** but also with other people, and I am very happy

**[01:31:04]** that people who share their experiences with us again,

**[01:31:11]** whether it's Jitka Dvořáková, who was here at the breakfast

**[01:31:14]** and the breakfast was very powerful for me personally,

**[01:31:16]** Dita was also at the breakfast, Pavel Moric, Sandra Friedrichova and Hanka Jadavan

**[01:31:22]** and there will be many others, so if you want, join us,

**[01:31:26]** it will be on 3.3. at 2 PM, it's kind of like Clubhouse where we chat,

**[01:31:30]** but you can of course join in, we'd be very glad.

**[01:31:34]** The book of the month, Pavel Pumperli has been very active in Red Button this month,

**[01:31:39]** because in February he recommended the book Can't Hurt Me,

**[01:31:42]** definitely check it out, the book is excellent and see why Pavel recommended it.

**[01:31:47]** For March, I already passed the baton to Hanka Jadavan,

**[01:31:51]** who will take care of this project, and Dominik Michna recommended Sense and Respond,

**[01:31:58]** so definitely take a look at it.

**[01:32:02]** Batya's inspiration is still valid, we really like Batya,

**[01:32:06]** so if you'd like to get inspired by Batya, Gabča Končítíková,

**[01:32:09]** who was a guest here, I think in November or December, so it's definitely possible.

**[01:32:13]** Keep following us on EDUtéka, we're expanding formats,

**[01:32:16]** so besides just discussions and lectures, we'll also do company visits

**[01:32:23]** and much, much more, so stay with us.

**[01:32:25]** And I would like to invite you to the March breakfast,

**[01:32:29]** the March breakfast will be on March 24th.

**[01:32:32]** And you said the book very nicely, the five things we regret most before death,

**[01:32:39]** for me a very powerful book, which was also the book of the month,

**[01:32:43]** recommended by Radka Horáková, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

**[01:32:47]** And we will talk about how seniors function,

**[01:32:53]** what we do well, and what we do wrong.

**[01:32:57]** Simona Bagarová will come, who I think has a lot to say on this topic.

**[01:33:03]** And from my perspective, it will be a very powerful breakfast,

**[01:33:05]** so on March 24th from 8:30, I look forward to seeing you.

**[01:33:09]** See you, Pavle, thanks again.

**[01:33:12]** And thank you.

**[01:33:12]** Take care, take care.

**[01:33:14]** Bye and see you.