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Whenever other people in my business want to rip me, they say, “Sure, the guy started with Michael Jordan, it’s not hard to train the best.” If you think it’s “not hard” to take the best and find ways to make him better, you’ve never had to face that challenge. It’s easy to improve on mediocrity, not so easy to improve on excellence.
I’m going to come back a better player. Still not satisfied. That is a Cleaner. That’s the core message of this book. I understand it’s a message that truly motivates some readers, and infuriates others. I read and appreciated every comment and review, positive and negative; you can’t keep improving if you fear others will disapprove of what you’re doing. The only difference between “feedback” and “criticism” is the way you hear it, and I heard it all. And while most of the response was overwhelmingly positive, or at least fair, I was intrigued by this occasional comment: “It doesn’t tell you what to do.” That is 100 percent accurate. Why should anyone want to be told what to do? The whole point of this book is that in order to be successful, to truly have what you want in your life, you must stop waiting be told what to do and how to do it. Your goals, your decisions, your commitment. If you can’t see the end result, how can anyone else see it for you? I can’t give you a ten-step process or a checklist for accomplishing your goals; no one can do that for you, nor should you ask them to. What I am giving you is insight into the mentality and guts of those who have found unparalleled success by trusting their own instincts to get to where they want to be. They do it in the sports world; you can do it in your world. It’s a mind-set for mental toughness. Tell yourself what to do, and stop waiting for others to lay it all out. Can anyone do this? Do you have to be born this way, or can you learn it? Here’s my answer, and what I hope you keep in mind as you read this book: You don’t have to play basketball like Michael Jordan to have his mind-set and mental toughness, and apply it to whatever you do.
Agriculture—growing food crops for people and feed for animals—must be energized by solar radiation, specifically by the blue and red parts of the visible spectrum.[5] Chlorophylls and carotenoids, light-sensitive molecules in plant cells, absorb light at these wavelengths and use it to power photosynthesis, a multi-step sequence of chemical reactions that combines atmospheric carbon dioxide and water—as well as small amounts of elements including, notably, nitrogen and phosphorus—to produce new plant mass for grain, legume, tuber, oil, and sugar crops. Part of these harvests is fed to domestic animals to produce meat, milk, and eggs, and additional animal foods come from mammals that graze on grasses and aquatic species whose growth depends ultimately on phytoplankton, the dominant plant mass produced by aquatic photosynthesis.[6]
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