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Terry is the author of Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life. He has a breadth of experiences from playing NCAA division 1 basketball, to SWAT hostage negotiation, and plenty in between.
He’s also had two amputations while battling cancer - a journey demanding resilience and determination for him to get through to this day.
Now, Terry writes, speaks and features on podcasts like this one, sharing insights and ideas as he goes!
Top 3 quotes from the episode
Top 3 quotes from the episode
"Sometimes doing hard things gets that resolve up, gets that courage up, gets that determination up and allows you to do things that you certainly don't want to do. In some cases you didn't think you could do."
"We tend to look at life as the highs and the lows. But life is one in the day in, , day out way that we handle ourselves, that we handle the situations in life."
"I want to understand where you're coming from because empathy builds trust and trust allows you to work with somebody to change behaviour."
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Show Notes
Show Notes
What drives Terry (1:02)
The value of doing uncomfortable things and continually learning (2:10)
What makes up sustainable excellence (12:56)
The importance of mentors (18:27)
Rapid-fire questions (19:55)
The role of service and empathy (25:08)
Question for me (33:24)
What keeps Terry grounded (35:42)
More quotes from the episode
More quotes from the episode
"In high school, I had three knee surgeries. And it was the difficulty. My second knee surgery, they took out 25 pieces of my bone. They put me in a cast from my hip to my ankle for the entire summer and told me that I would never play basketball again and that I might not walk normally again."
"I've always been the kind of person who wanted my life to be shaped by the decisions that I made, not by the decisions that somebody else made or the ones that I didn't."
"What I find is the more I learn, the more I experienced, the more I grow, the more questions I have."
"I just like to understand what makes people do what they do, what motivates them, what drives them. And I find I get that through reading about their lives."
"You don't have to agree with them, but you can still care about them. You can still love them. You can still want what's best for them."
"We've gotten to a point where, because we judge people, if you don't agree with me, you're a bad person."
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