1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Everybody. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: It's Bill Courtney, Welcome to Shop Talk number thirty six. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: Welcome in. 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 3: You. 5 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: That's better. 6 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: Welcome into the shop. Is that better? 7 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 3: That was better than the last one. 8 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Welcome in. 9 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: It's getting late from a reader, I mean a listener. 10 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm a reader, an army member from an army member. 11 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, even better than a listener and army. 12 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: An army member and a listener. Clearly he sent this. 13 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 2: The subject is a quote from Simon Sinek. 14 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: Hey saw this quote and thought of you. 15 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: Normal is what the majority does, which is why different 16 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: is so much more interesting. That's the quote. I know 17 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: we are an army and normal folks, but your guests 18 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 2: are so many more people listeners are breaking free from 19 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,639 Speaker 2: the expected or normal activities and doing things that are 20 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: different and far more interesting. My suggestion for a shop 21 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 2: talk is how and why doing different things are more 22 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: interesting than doing normal self serving activities. God bless you 23 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: as you inspire others. God bless you, and thank you 24 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: for sending me the letter after this, Why being normal 25 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: is not interesting, but being an army of normal folks 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: is different and quite interesting. I don't know how you're 27 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: gonna paraphrase that in the title Alex. But that's what 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: this Shop Talk number thirty six is. 29 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? 30 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: What are you gonna call it? 31 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 3: I don't know, figure it out later. 32 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: Right after these brief messages from our general sponsors. 33 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back. Great note. 34 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: Normal is what the majority does, which is different is 35 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: so much more interesting. When I read that, I thought 36 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: of a book that I used to give when I 37 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 2: coached football for six years. We would have a player 38 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 2: of the week whatever kid on Friday at a specifically 39 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: great game. And it wasn't always the guy with the 40 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 2: most touchdowns or most yardage or the most tackles. It 41 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 2: was somebody who did something abnormal. 42 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 3: That's making me want you to tell that story from 43 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: Undefeated about it. 44 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: That's so good? 45 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: Which story the. 46 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 3: Player of the week. Didn't one player give it and 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 3: then say, Shavus, you're really the player of the week. 48 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 3: That yeah, well they're all crying like it was a 49 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 3: really powerful Yeah. 50 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: Well, if you want to go watch Undefeated and you 51 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,119 Speaker 2: can see something that relates to the thing we're talking 52 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: about right now on Shop Talk. So for the player 53 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: of the week, which Davis was that particular scene, we 54 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 2: don't give a trophy or anything. We give a book, 55 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: and the book is Tony Dungee's book, which I think 56 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: was the number one New York Times bestseller. Anyway, it's 57 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 2: called Uncommon. I have read it a number of times. 58 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 2: I will give you a feel for it. Part one 59 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: is called Develop your Core, with four chapters about character 60 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: and integrity and courage and stewardship. Part two is Love 61 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 2: your Family. Part one Develop your Core. Part two, Love 62 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: your Family. Part three, Lift your friends and others. Part four, 63 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: Your full Potential. Part five, Establish a mission that matters. 64 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: Part six choose influence over image, oh boy. And Part 65 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: seven live your faith first before I go into what 66 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about. If you have not read 67 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 2: Uncommon by Tony Dungee, you do not have to be. 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: Tony Dungee was football coach Indianapolis Colts. He is now 69 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: kind of a mentor in and amongst the folks that 70 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: play and operate in the NFL. He is a fabulous 71 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 2: human being. And I highly suggest, even though the book's 72 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 2: probably ten years old, now you get it and read it. 73 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 2: It is for everybody. It has nothing to do with 74 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: just football, but it's interesting what our army member said, 75 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: Normal is what the majority does, which is why different 76 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 2: is so much more interesting. When Tony Dungee makes the 77 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:38,239 Speaker 2: point that being uncommon is what differentiates you from everyone else. 78 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: It's common to just get up and go about your 79 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: daily life and walk past those in need and do nothing. 80 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: It's common to look down your nose at folks who 81 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 2: may be living in squalor. It's common to assume that 82 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: the reason kids are in gangs is because they're just 83 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 2: bad kids. It's common to well our marriage is in 84 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 2: a divorce. It's common to have interpersonal issues. It's common 85 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: to see people in pain and not getting involved. Not 86 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 2: long ago, a woman was caught on fire and burned 87 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 2: to death on the subway while people filmed it with 88 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: their phones. It's pretty common to be so consumed with 89 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: what today's societal preconceived notions say about who you are 90 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 2: when you post something and you get lots of likes, 91 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 2: and that you're more consumed with the thumbs up likes 92 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 2: on something you post on social media than you are 93 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 2: with actually opening a helping hand to another human being 94 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: and looking them in they eyes. Those things are common, 95 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 2: not real, impressive, or interesting. What is different in my 96 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: Army members letters language? What is uncommon and Tony Dungee's 97 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: letter in Tony Dungee's book is developing your core with character, honesty, integrity, humility, stewardship, 98 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: and courage, by loving your family, by treating your spouse well, 99 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: by being a good father and mother, by respecting authority. 100 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: What is uncommon is by lifting your friends and others. 101 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 2: Those things are uncommon, and those things are what's interesting. 102 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 2: I think about. 103 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: The opening to Monday. 104 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 2: Night Football, and you know, you see these clips of 105 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 2: these amazing plays while they play all this music, and 106 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 2: I've never seen when they're exemplifying the excitement of football 107 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 2: and they're showing these amazing clips. You never see a 108 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 2: guy catch a ball for five yards and run on 109 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,679 Speaker 2: a bounce. It's just not something that they highlight because 110 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: it's a common play. You never see a guy get 111 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: a handoff and run three yards and get tackled, and 112 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: that's a highlight. It's a common play. What they show 113 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: you is the immaculate reception. What they show you is 114 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 2: some one handed grab. The reason ESPN, on an hour 115 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: long Sports center show, waits to the very end of 116 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 2: the show to show the top ten plays of the 117 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: day is because you're willing to sit through an hour 118 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: show just to see those ten plays because they're amazing 119 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: and they're uncommon. The reason they play the loud music 120 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: and show these clips of amazing plays where somebody runs 121 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: fifteen yards and spins off a tackle and cuts back 122 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: against the grain and goes all the way through three 123 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 2: defenders to a touchdown is because that's not something you 124 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 2: see all the time. It's uncommon. See, it's the uncommon 125 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: that gets us on the edge of our chairs. It's 126 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 2: the uncommon that gets us to stand up in the 127 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 2: stands in chair. It's the uncommon that inspires us. So 128 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: that's why being different is so much more interesting. That's 129 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 2: why being uncommon is what inspires us. Because doing what 130 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 2: everybody else does and allowing injustice to continue to occur 131 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 2: without having the passion and the discipline to insert yourself 132 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 2: where need is, where you can offer help, well, that's uncommon. 133 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 2: That's inspirational. That's what moves the needle. That's what being 134 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: a member of the army is. So while you think 135 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: about how common or uncommon you are, or how different 136 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 2: or normal or interesting you are, try to think about 137 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: your passion and your abilities and your discipline and where 138 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 2: you can put them into your culture and your society 139 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: to happen to affect some type of change, because by 140 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:32,479 Speaker 2: doing that, you become uncommon, you become different, you become interesting, 141 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 2: and then you become a part of the army of 142 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: normal folks. So what my listener and this army member does, 143 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 2: and what Tony Dungee does and what I do, is 144 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 2: try to inspire you to think about how to be uncommon, 145 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 2: how to be different, how to be interesting, how to inspire, 146 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: and how to exact change in your culture. All of 147 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: us have the ability to do it, just got to 148 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 2: have the courage to step up. I'm Bill Courtney. That's 149 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 2: Shop Talk number thirty six. If you like this, please 150 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 2: rate it, review it, subscribe to the podcast, tell people 151 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 2: about us, share the so on social Thanks to our producer, 152 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 2: iron Light Labs Alex. 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