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Not by sitting at the head of the table or leading the parade.
What if I told you that you could influence an entire symphony without ever picking up the conductors wand?
Or in my case, what if I told you you could have the most powerful will change in a basketball game, not when the ball's in your hands, but by what you do when it's not.
James and DeWayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Rae Allen, all Hall of Famers.
Do you know how often I actually touched the ball?
Two percent of the time.
Two. So it begs the question, what did I do in the other 98 % of the time when I didn't have the ball to justify starting on the best team in the world, playing at the highest level on the planet Earth.
That's a crazy question.
What did I do? Well, to understand that, you have to go back to when I grew up.
When I grew up in a small town outside of Detroit, it was my time playing basketball, football, Sand not baseball kick the can dodge ball ghosts in the graveyard. But to me those weren't just games those are opportunities to belong and That's when I learned the most powerful lesson in my life the power of we over me The power of we over me and I realize during these games when I helped my friends win I wasn't the mixed kid.
I wasn't the poor kid.
I wasn't the freakishly tall kid.
I was just a teammate.
I belonged. And so I became obsessed with how can I help my friends win?
How can I help my friends look good?
For love. I was seeking love.
When's to win in the name of being loved.
And that became the entire hallmark of my basketball career, ironically, what I learned in kindergarten, I'm the playground.
And I took that with me through my entire MBA career.
Through two final fours at Duke University, a national championship, two MBA titles just down the road here in Miami, I was obsessed with what can I do to help my friends and my team win and let me tell you it wasn't always glorious.
I wasn't a big score alright.
I didn't have 50 -point games but what I did was I was like the LeBron James of diving on the ball, diving on the floor for loose balls.
I wasn't a fancily dribbler like like like Dwayne Wade but what I was I was like the Steph Curry of running back on defense.
Alright I was in a crazy passer.
But what it was, I was a solid inbound passer in end -of -game situations.
Now, those are not sexy plays at all, okay?
Those are not plays that makes someone run into the team store and say, Bat -E leads our team in four burns.
I want his jersey. Those Those are the plays that I made in the 98 % of the time that I didn't have the ball in my hands that impacted winning.
In fact, I impacted winning at such a high level that when I retired, I saw a stat about my career.
And on the teams that I played for in my career, when I was on the floor, we consistently outscored the opponent by five points a game versus when I was on the bench. OK.
That puts me in the last three decades, the last 30 years, in the top 97 percentile of every player that played in the NBA.
Right next to guys like Tracy McGrady and the late great Kobe Bryant.
Now, if you ask the average NBA fan, they'd say, there's no way that baddie should be with T Mac and Kobe, but there I was, for my impact.
You see, it's all about the unseen, the immeasurable, the intangible that matters.
See, today we are driven by so many what I call spotlight metrics, we're always chasing grade point average and salary, and you know, we're concerned about the cost of the purse that we carry, or the car that we drive, we're concerned about likes, mentions, follows, reposts, right?
Yes, nod your head yes, we're all guilty.
Well, those are all what I call spotlight metrics.
They happen when the light's on us.
But those factors, those figures, they miss the most important thing.
How do we elevate others?
Michael Lewis wrote a great profile on me called the no stats all -star about how My impact in the basketball court went far beyond the box score You know what the crux of that was I lived to make the small plays for others So how does that work in the real life Simple small out of the spotlight actions like mentoring a young person and so when you're doing that You are not just participating, right?
You have a huge role in winning, and that's the fun part.
Going on a win. And so my friends at the Butler University Business School wanted to find people like me who live to elevate others across industries.
And what they found was that in every winning team and across industries, there teams right with people who lived to elevate others.
And they named this, I didn't come up with this, they called it the batier effect.
And the batier effect is very similar to our normal lives after the TED Talk tonight, and here all of our inspiring speakers.
I want you to ask yourself, what am I doing in my 98 % outside the spotlight?
How am I spending my time, my energy, my talents.
to elevate others. Because if you do that, you will realize it is not about being the star, but the value is in being the glue guy, the glue girl, the glue person that makes it all work and you win together, and it's an amazing feeling.
So my friends, that is how you change outcomes.
I'm Elise Hugh. I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
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