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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
Live up to your definition of greatness and inspire the best in the people around you.
In The Seven Crucibles: An Inspirational Game Plan for Overcoming Adversity in Your Life, NFL fullback and motivational speaker Alec Ingold delivers a hands-on playbook for conquering every obstacle that stands between you and success, on the playing field and in life. You'll learn to utilize your own story of trials and tribulations to help embrace the changes to create future success. These lessons will help you face your biggest fears and sustain motivation on your path to personal and professional growth.
In the book, you'll find:
- A set of practical tools the author used to climb to the top of one of the most punishing arenas in global athletics and lessons for applying them to your everyday life
- Strategies for creating a mindset that rewards resilience and perseverance, and leaves unrealistic perfectionism behind
- Ways to reflect on your own accomplishments and shortcomings to help you learn from the past and build the future you want
An essential resource for students and professional athletes, The Seven Crucibles will also earn a place on the bookshelves of business, military, academic, government, and educational leaders hoping to coax the best out of themselves and the people they lead.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
The Kickoff
What Are the Seven Crucibles?
Deciding to Embrace Change
The Purpose Crucible
Identity and Purpose Are Not the Same
The Oracle Revelation
The Competition Crucible
The Right Way versus the Wrong Way
The Kazik Lesson
The Lesson Carries Over
The Grindset Crucible
The Grindset's Two Brothers … Mindset and Heartset
Talent Is Overrated
Look in the Mirror
Align Yourself with Like‐Minded Teammates
Find a Grit Factory
No One Cares
Two Cups of Talent
The Support Crucible
It's a Lonely Road, Man …
Undrafted Day
Support Is a Two‐Way Street
The Leadership Crucible
The Leadership Decision
Great Leaders Are Great Communicators
Great Leaders Inspire Belief
The Discipline Crucible
Always Keep the Main Thing, the Main Thing
The 17‐Inch Standard
The Relationship Between Discipline and Standards
1% Days
The Broken Rib Conundrum
Spirit, Body, Mind, Emotion
The Perspective Crucible
Priority and Perspective
Rediscovering Perspective in Marina del Rey
That Time the Extension Didn't Happen
Overtime
Welcome to Miami
The Climb After the Climb
Embrace Your Crucibles
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Table of Contents
Begin Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
Wiley End User License Agreement
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THE 7 CRUCIBLES
AN INSPIRATIONAL GAME PLAN FOR OVERCOMING ADVERSITY IN YOUR LIFE
ALEC INGOLD
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data:
Names: Ingold, Alec, author.
Title: The 7 crucibles : an inspirational game plan for overcoming adversity in your life / Alec Ingold.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2023] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022041522 (print) | LCCN 2022041523 (ebook) | ISBN 9781394171385 (cloth) | ISBN 9781394171392 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781394171408 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Resilience (Personality trait) | Success.
Classification: LCC BF698.35.R47 I54 2023 (print) | LCC BF698.35.R47 (ebook) | DDC 155.2/4—dc23/eng/20220914
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022041522
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022041523
Cover Design: Paul McCarthy
Dedicated to all of the kids who are worried about being perfect. Chase greatness, not perfection. I pray you find purpose in this book and use it to bring that life to reality.
Preface
If you want to dare to be great, this book is for you. You're just like me.
If you've accepted a challenge in your life and made it a priority, you're on a journey full of ups and downs, wins and losses, peaks, valleys, and plateaus. You are chasing dreams that seem impossible to so many and inevitable to just a few friends and family. You want to be the 1% of the 1%, but you may not fully understand what it takes to get there.
I want to help you understand what it takes. I've been blessed beyond my wildest expectations in my journey to the National Football League. That journey was not easy, and as you'll read, it continues to challenge me on so many levels to this day.
The Seven Crucibles will take you inside how I combined my mental, physical, and most important, spiritual gifts to help me achieve my dream.
Whatever your dream is, I want you to live it, too. That's why I'm going to give you the answers to the tests of adversity I've faced along the way, especially when times seem the toughest. I hope you'll use what I'm going to tell you to chase those dreams, something every one of us needs to do. But the best part of The Seven Crucibles is it doesn't stop there. I want you to learn why adversity is essential to success. Chasing dreams without adversity attached diminishes those dreams because it means you're capable of chasing something even bigger!
Think of it this way. Chasing dreams without adversity is like winning a video game on the easiest setting. Dream BIG! Turn that difficulty meter up as high as it goes! Push yourself to your absolute limit, fall, get back up, and keep grinding.
I also want you to understand what happens on the other side of that dream. Have you ever asked yourself that question? Your life doesn't stop just because you accomplished what you want to. Life is a constant blur of motion, time, people and circumstances, and all of them can change in a matter of moments, like when you tear an anterior cruciate ligament, and you're faced with the possibility that you may never play another game in the NFL again.
How do you handle something like that? What do you do next?
When you chase your dreams and achieve them, of course you take some time to enjoy that your hard work paid off. But soon, you go through a necessary reality check.
In your dreams you only focus on the good, the light, the white. Nobody tells you that your dreams may come with nightmares. The failures, the fears, the dark. You have to respond to this realization with uncomfortable honesty. The longer you deny the dark, the harder it becomes to overcome that other side. That's part of the test of adversity that the crucibles in your life bring you. Ironically, it's also the part of life that nobody wants to face.
Nobody can choose how you respond or how quickly. This is an internal decision that I want to help you with. Understand that unless you face adversity, you'll never get to the other side of it and find all the gifts and rewards that were meant for you.
People often think they must confront the darkness on their own. That's absolutely not true. It's a process that nobody should do alone. Nor should you want to, especially if you have people and tools in your corner to help you.
That's why I wrote The Seven Crucibles. You will have few problems in the light, but it's the darkness that you must overcome to lead a happy and full life.
How you approach adversity in your life is a choice. I've been there and that's why I know I can help you. I want you to understand that adversity is inevitable, especially if you've set the bar high for your life. I want you to challenge yourself, and as odd as it may seem, I want you to fail from time to time.
That's because you'll learn resiliency from your failures. Failure will teach you how to adjust, and while it may not seem like it, put you one step closer to succeeding in whatever you decide you want to do with your life.
The Seven Crucibles is a journey for you, just like it has been for me to write it. But you aren't traveling toward a physical destination. As you read, I want you to think that you're traveling inward.
We're going to go through my toughest moments in life together, and in that way, I'll help you figure out the best ways to deal with your own pain and defeats.
I want you to want to own the darkness of your past. It's time to be honest with yourself and learn from all of those successes and failures. If you really want to see how great you can be, it's time to pick up this book and commit to facing your fears so that you will never again be afraid of failing. It's time to stop the self‐sabotage and commit not only to yourself but to the people who count on you to be the best version of you.
Many books are written about how to succeed, but few talk about incorporating failures and adversity as part of that process. As you'll read, The Seven Crucibles is more than just about the setbacks I've encountered, it's also about the lessons I've learned despite those setbacks, on the way to being an NFL football player.
That's where we're going to relate: the failure. That's what nobody feels comfortable talking about. Everyone wants to show you their highlight reel. Highlight reels are great, but let's face it, they also don't reflect reality.
If you want to truly be the best version of yourself, you can't just own your highlight reel, you must be prepared to own everything: your good plays, your bad plays, your wins, and your losses. If you can do that, you have a chance at a truly great life.
So let's huddle up and see how great you really can be.
The Kickoff
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26
I'm not gonna lie, most people really don't care about special teams. None of the superstar players are on the field, fans don't pay much attention to what are considered routine plays to move the game along, and little more.
You might think these plays are a waste of time and interrupt the flow of the game, but for the men in the arena, the guys doing the dirty work that often goes unnoticed, this is where we make our living. We're a bunch of guys giving max effort at max velocity to chase one more pay day, or what the guys in the locker room refer to as a game check. Life as a special teams' player is pretty simple in one way. If we don't play, we don't get paid.
Remember the 2006 movie Invincible with Mark Wahlberg playing Philadelphia Eagles' player Vince Papale? Vince was pure grit and determination, finding any way to impact the game and make up for his lack of God‐given ability. Punts and kicks have anywhere from 10 to 15 Vince Papales on the field during games these days. Every Vince has a burning reason to go full tilt every time he steps on the field.
Teams have these plays broken down to a science, as 22 guys start in a box, expand to 20 mph speeds over 50 yards, and condense into massive collisions in a matter of seconds.
That science makes special teams' plays routine almost every time.
Unfortunately, there was nothing routine for me about a punt play on November 14, 2021, late in the first quarter of the Las Vegas Raiders' game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
This was our national coming out party. We were 5‐3 and we wanted to make a statement to a national audience that we were legit contenders. A chance to beat the big brother Chiefs that had our number since I'd been in the league.
I was dialed in. I was the Raiders' team captain and our team's National Football League Players Association rep in only my third year on the team. I had also been named a Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee and was a Pro Bowl alternate in 2019. I don't say this to pat myself on the back. I want you to understand how I play on special teams: typically, full tilt and all out. I always step onto the field with a sense of urgency and a need to relentlessly carve out a role for myself after going undrafted in 2019.
This was the week to let everyone know I was in the top tier of fullbacks in the world. My job wasn't always to rack up big stats. My job was to help our team find a way to “just win, baby” any way that I could. It was perfect for my brand of football, and I took pride in throwing key blocks, catching passes, barreling through people on handoffs, pumping up my teammates, and generating as much positive energy as I could on every play whether I was on the field or not.
I was also honored to be our special teams' captain, which is why I was on the field for that fourth down punt. On that play, our Pro Bowl punter, my guy A.J. Cole, sailed a punt to the Chiefs’ Mike Hughes, who ran it back but fumbled on the play, giving us possession.
But I never saw the fumble.
I was lined up at right guard and my job was to get down field as quickly as possible to cover the punt. I got hemmed in at the line of scrimmage and was being blocked to the right. So, I planted my foot to turn left and accelerate to start my pursuit.
That's when it happened.
My leg gave out. My knee twisted. I heard a pop.
