Jack McNamara: Perseverance Learned In Sports Applies to Life
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Jack McNamara is the founder and CEO of Tru Sports Drinks. He played Hockey in college and continued to play professionally.
Jack McNamara talks about how he learned perseverance from playing sports growing up and how that has served him today. He encourages everyone to try to be 1% better every single day. This is an oft-stated and important idea, that if you just try to accomplish the achievable goal of being 1% every day, you will be 365% better at the end of the year.
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