Namajunas' Champion Mantra
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A story about UFC fighter Rose Namajunas using powerful self-talk before pulling off an unexpected championship victory.
"Wei Li and Rose Namajunas were fighting. They zoom in on Rose's face and she's saying 'I'm the best' over and over again. She was the underdog - she was supposed to get her ass kicked. I would've bet she was gonna get knocked out. But within 2 minutes, she did a front leg kick and knocked Wei Li out.
After the knockout, her husband, who's part of her training team, gets down to her level (because he's like 6'5" and she's probably 5'4") and looks at her face and goes 'We've been saying it for years - you're the motherfucking best, no one could fuck with you. Who's the best?' And she goes 'I'm the best.'
Then in the interview with Joe Rogan, he mentions how she kept saying 'I'm the best' and she responds 'Because I am the best.'
What made this special is that Rose isn't like other UFC fighters with all the bravado. She's ultra quiet, humble, and has had emotional issues before. People perceived her as mentally weak. So seeing this gentle giant standing in the cage, telling herself 'I'm the best' - it wasn't trash talk, it was self-talk. She was reinforcing it to herself so she would go perform. And then she delivered this stunning knockout."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.