Michael Jordan: The Life

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Anger you can restrain and turn into energy... All cleaners have that slow burning blue-hot internal anger.. but it never becomes blind rage, and it’s never allowed to become destructive.... quiet anger into results.” Like all Cleaners, he didn’t study the competition, he made the competition study him. Other guys sat there analyzing and contemplating what might happen; he didn’t have to. He knew his skills and knowledge were so finely tuned that he could dominate any situation; he worked so long and hard that his body and mind reflexively knew what to do at all times.

This book is written by Tim Grover, the one who trained Michael Jordan (and Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, etc.), who shows how to be the best in the WORLD in various things (whether it be sports, business, etc.). However, doing something like this is VERY costly (as you can imagine). There seems to be a lot of truth in it (as far as achieving that goal), but I struggle to agree that it would be worth it. Grover clearly knows what he's doing, but I disagree with his ultimate goal. His goal is to get people to do things for their own glory and he glosses over what it would cost people to get there. In other words, we clearly disagree on values. However, there are some principles about leadership that people can adopt (i.e. hard work, perseverance, responsibility, etc.). If he ever felt anything negative, he never showed it. That's a cleaner…. Cleaners show emotion if it’s the only way to get everyone else where they need to be, never because the cleaner has lost control of his feelings.” Your mental focus and concentration, your ability to control your environment and the heartbeat of others, determines whether you succeed or fail. Don't talk. I am guilty of this one. I like to talk about my success, about how hard a worker I am, whatever things I have accomplished etc... If your talking that means that your results don't speak for themselves. We follow his basketball path, from his career while in College (North Carolina) to the 1984 draft, and from the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona (when he captained the first 'Dream Team') to, obviously, his 6 championship rings. Yet, it's not only his career as an athlete that we are given to see here, but, also, his family, Nike's advertising campaigns, the movie 'Space Jam'... The whole Jordan stuff!My family came to the United States when I was four, and my father went to work in the basement of a hospital in Chicago, dismembering cadavers. When there was no school and both my parents were working, he'd take me with him; I was five years old the first time I saw my father dismantle a corpse. When I was six, he handed me a bone saw and told me to help."

Dare I say, not meant for women at all? When he refers to “cleaners” Grover always says he/him. Never even mentions the idea of women cleaners, probably because he only works with male athletes (at least that’s what it seems like?). Chapter 3: When You're a Cleaner...You keep pushing yourself harder when everyone else has had enough.LaFeber’s examination of Nike and its particular dominion over the global marketplace is often scathing, while his fascinating mini-biography of Michael Jordan and the commercial history of basketball reveal much about American society. Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness by David H. Lewis