The Secret 12-15

The next section of the book brings up another interesting statement, which is if you can see it in your thoughts you can hold it. This idea of thoughts becoming things is very intriguing. To think that all one has to do to obtain something is to make it there dominate though is just strange. Though a bit weird this is how the book explains days that are either seemingly great and get better or seemingly terrible and get worst. On good days people do not think about all of their problems. Because of this, good things seem to occur over and over simply because these good thoughts are drawing them. The same thing applies for bad days and bad thoughts. The book states that thoughts are magnetic and this is a rule that applies to all people. If you see yourself in abundance it will come to you.

The Secret 12-15

This book suggest reason to why people are successful. This book suggest that the reason that people become and stay successful is because they attract these things to them. The secret states that if you believe something then it will be drawn to you. This is how they explain why one percent of the population controls 96 percentage of the wealth. It says that it is not an accident that this occurs. The book also explains what happens when people become rich, lose all their money then gain a large sum of money again. It explains that these people believe that prosperous things will happen to them, then they start to second guess themselves. Once they stop doing this and return to their original mental state they gain their money again. The statement like attracts like applies to these examples. While the rich people where having thoughts of losing their wealth, they were. Once the changed their thoughts to believing that they will be rich thats what they became.

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One year, on fat tuesday, when Rick Pitino was coaching the University of Kentucky they played a game at Louisiana State University. During this game Kentucky found themselves down by more than 30 points at the half. That year LSU had an incredible amount of athletes. They had based their team off of players for years. During years when they had good players they won, but in years when they did not have the players they did not. Kentucky differed from LSU in the aspect that their team was based off of a program and no matter who were the current players they were still "Kentucky". Because of this system Kentucky eventually came back and won the game in regulation. Pitino used the example of this game to show how people should live their lives. If people have a good set of morals to live by they always out succeed, in the long run, those who live in the moment.

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Later in the book Pitino talks about the importance of having deliberate practices. He defines a deliberate practice as one that is focused, intense and goal oriented. He uses the example of golf when he is talking about this kind of practice. He says that to succeed a golfer must not only hit a bucket of balls, but have a set of goals as he hits these balls. They must set a goal to hit 80% of the balls within 20 feet of the pin. This is what Pitino says defines the good from the great. He says that many are willing to pay the price to be great, but few go about it the right way. To be great one must not only do the necessary thing but they must do them with a purpose.

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After leaving his job as the head coach of the Boston Celtics Rick Pitino returned to his vacation house in South Florida. He told the rest of his family that he needed time alone to reevaluate things. While alone Pitino went through all of the mistakes that he made while coaching the Celtics. He eventually came to the conclusion that he made three major mistakes. He decided that he made too many spontaneous decisions about players, he took too many shortcuts, and he beat himself up too much once he sensed that failure was in the air. He essentially made a list of all of the thing he should have done. Once he made it out of this state he started to look at other job situations. Three weeks after resigning from the Celtics he received a call from the University of Las Vegas. They wanted Pitino to become their new head coach. After being courted by the University of Las Vegas Pitino decided not to take the job there. While waiting on other offers Pitino was contacted by the University of Michigan and the University of Louisville. Once Pitino visited the University of Louisville he decided that there was where he wanted to continue his career. Many in Kentucky saw Pitino's move to Louisville as the move of a traitor. They saw it as this because a few years earlier he had led the University of Kentucky to a final four appearance and Kentucky Louisville is a huge rivalry. Currently Pitino still coaches at the University of Louisville.

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Rebound Rules The Art of Success by Rick Pitino

In this book Rick Pitino, head basketball coach at the University of Louisville, gives the keys that he has used over his lifetime to rebound from times of adversity. The book starts on the eve of Pitino's last game as the coach of the Boston Celtics. Pitino tells his good friend and assistant coach, Jim O'Brien, that the game is no longer fun for him and he does not believe in chasing money. In fact, he states that "if you chase money, you're not necessarily chasing success. Give yourself success, and money will chase after you as if its your shadow" (Pitino). Pitino had chased the biggest contract in basketball history. He had signed a 10 year $50 millinon contract to coach the Boston Celtics. In chasing this large contract Pitino found himself in a situation that he had very little success, which led to little happiness. Once Pitino realized this he resigned, leaving behind $23 million. The money that he left behind meant little to him because he knew that once he found success again he would make back the money that he was leaving.

Why We Can't Wait 11-4

In the next chapter King brings up a question, "What is the Negro willing to pay if we give him his freedom" (King 117)? In saying this King is trying to allow other american to realize that the same problems that were apparent during slavery times still exist now. The american people were still stretching the limits to see how far the African American would go for equality. Of course this stretching was done in in a more subtle way. King does an excellent job of reaching out to peoples conscience here. He names something that most would agree is a bad thing and compares it in a way that makes since to most people.