Keep them away from stagnant bums, regardless of their titles.
“The biggest cheat code in life is getting your kids counseled by great adults.
Parents, coaches, & mentors who live the code in their own lives make a HUGE impact on kids future selves as they watch them operate.
Keep them away from stagnant bums, regardless of their titles.”
-Ray Zingler on X
I am a fiend for high performance.
I love to watch, study, and learn from people who operate at a high level.
I don’t care if this is in my field of strength & conditioning or in learning from a finance mogul leading a high performing team.
The New Zealand All Blacks are a very successful Rugby team. For the Americans reading this, they are the New England Patriots of yesteryear in the Rugby world. They have a track record of success and it all circles back to their culture.
And while I’ll not write an entire dissertation on the All Blacks, I’ll tell you their creed:
“No Dickheads.”
Pretty straight forward, huh?
They don’t care how good or even great you are.
If you don’t fit in and elevate their culture, you won’t be there.
That is the way it works.
And when I learned this years ago (before I became a father) it got me thinking so much about how critically important great leaders, mentors, and coaches were in my own life.
And consequently, how little impact the ‘dickheads’ had.
The fact of the matter is that no resource has the ability to positively reach and influence our kids future selves like great people can.
People who really care.
People who live the code, practice what they preach.
It sounds cliché but the importance of getting your kids influenced by these types of people is so monumentally critical it’s not even funny.
It’s because just as great people can trend them upward, shitty people can trend them downward even faster.
And when I say shitty, I’m not talking about people who are pouring wine in their tumblrs and bringing them to their teaching classrooms, I’m simply talking about stagnant bums.
People who talk the talk, but don’t walk they walk.
They look innocent on the surface, right, but they are most dangerous.
And the reason is because your kids are seeing how these people operate.
They are subconsciously learning what they can get away with.
Remember kids don’t learn from words, they learn from watching actions.
You want them learning “acceptable” behaviors?
Or exceptional behaviors?
The real world only rewards the ladder.
Hunt great people.
Your kids future depends on them.
