Pete Carroll: Competing to Be Your Best

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And Pete's central focus, it's really crisp. It's to help others become their very best.

And this conversation, it's really about repeatability and creating clarity on the thoughts and habits and practices of what it takes, in his words, to build a culture that is relentlessly focused on helping people compete to be their very best.

And to be able to do that within highly competitive teams of people who have varied views of the world and varied skills and attitudes.

And when it comes to winning, Pete is one of the very small number of coaches who have won both a Super Bowl and a college national championship in football.

And with that in mind, I think that you'll be surprised on how he thinks about winning and ultimately what's driving him. I just hope in this conversation that we capture, or that I do a good enough job to capture his creativity and the care he has to drill right into the essence of what it takes to build a masterpiece.

And with that being said, I also want to make sure that I capture this opportunity to thank the players and the coaches and John Schneider and the scouts and all of the staff of the Seattle Seahawks. It's just been a flat out joy to learn from and share with an extraordinary team of people. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity and the experience that we've had together. With that, let's jump right into this conversation with Coach Pete Carroll. Alright, here we go. So, Coach, this has been a long time coming. And what I'm looking forward to doing is being able to really try to understand how you've become one of the best coaches in the world and the path that led you to now.