Today we start a new series of quotes where I will be going through John Wooden's Pyramid of Success. Since my company and website are called SlamDunk Success, I thought it would be a good idea to do a series on the concept of success. I can think of no greater guide to success than Wooden's Pyramid of Success.
For the first two-thirds of my coaching career, I did not follow or study John Wooden nearly enough. In the last third of it, however, I have become a huge fan and fairly voracious student of his. I used the Pyramid of Success with my varsity basketball team in the 2011-12 season. We went through discussions of the different building blocks of the Pyramid throughout that season, which culminated in a trip to the state tournament, the first time a boys' basketball team at that school had made it to the state tournament since 1996. While I won't say that we made it to the tournament solely because we worked through the Pyramid of Success, I will say that it was a big part of our season, and I believe it guided us towards our success.
Today is an introduction to the series, and I talk about a few quotes that will really help lay the foundation for the series and for Wooden's ideas on success. In the coming weeks, I will cover each building block in the Pyramid and talk about quotes that support each of those blocks. I think you will find this to be a truly rewarding series.
To help guide me through this series, I am using the documents that I created for my team in 2011-12 to use for our discussions before and after practice, as well as the following books :
They Call Me Coach - John Wooden with Jack Tobin
Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success - John Wooden with Jay Carty
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court - John Wooden with Steve Jamison
For more information to help you on your road to becoming your best, check us out at SlamDunkSuccess.com or email me at scott@slamdunksuccess.com.
As always, our background music is "Dance in the Sun" by Krisztian Vass.
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