David Pollack: Standards Over Feelings | Re-release

Totally agree, brother.

Totally agree.

So let's go into some of these accolades, but not the accolades, but more of how you got there because these are the words of Mick and Mick only and because we're not face to face, you can't, like, slap me or anything.

You were not supposed to be there, bro.

I'm just gonna be honest.

Like, you were, you were not supposed to be there.

It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of consistency because I tell people this all the time, especially in the business world, talent's great, right? But it's gonna get you so far.

And, you know, people always say hard work outworks talent when talent doesn't show up, and I always say, "That's great, but when talent does show up and it's mixed with hard work, you have David Pollack." And to me, that's what it's about, right? Like, you've got the talent and the hard work.

And when you and I were face to face, we got to meet, you talked to me about this 50-40-10, and I'm not gonna lie to you, I don't think I've slept since because I've been so invigorated by that, and I know that is your message, and so I'm trying to, like, contain myself.

I've been waiting for this moment to share the world the 50-40-10 because I think that makes you who you are, and I know that there are other people that are like you, again, whether it's sports, whether it's business, whether it's entrepreneurship, that have that same thing, and you've given it a label, and I love it.

So 50-40-10 by David Pollack.

If you're going to be great and you have big dreams and big goals, it's going to come with sacrifice.

And, like, I had a mindset...

Now, listen, I, I don't know, God gave me this.

Like, God gave me physicality and a mindset and a work ethic.

Like, that was God-given.

And then I, I slowly started to learn to hone it.

And I, I'll never forget when I was in eighth grade watching the World Cup, and it's the one with Brandi Chastain, the famous one when they won gold.

And, um, I'll never forget the, the semifinal game, they're talking on the broadcast and they said the girls stopped drinking carbonation because it hurts their conditioning.

I'm in eighth grade, Mick.

I'm 14 years old.

It's the last time I've ever touched a carbonated beverage in my life because I was like, "Dude, if I want to get here, like, I got to give that up." And so I started to learn at a young age, like, I, I got to do things that are different.

I got to outwork people.

And I do it with my daughter and I love it 'cause my daugh- me and my daughter have this little thing where she loves to work and she's starting to really embrace it, and I always say, "Baby girl," I said, "we're working in the dark.

We're working in the dark.