Takeaway: Go toward your problems, into the thing you fear, and find that there isn’t much to be afraid of after all.
From Paul Assaiante, one of the most decorated college athletics coaches in history:
Run toward the roar.
In Africa, lions hunt in packs. And when they go out to hunt, they take with them the oldest female of the pride. By this point, she’s old and toothless. She can no longer catch her own prey.
But she has the deepest roar. And what the lionesses do—and it’s the lionesses who do the hunting—the lionesses position this old lion in the middle of a field facing the bush. The bush could be a mile away.
The prey are between the old lion and the bush, and all the lionesses hide in the bush. When this old lady roars, the prey run away from the roar to their death.
The concept is go to the problem.
Go at what you perceive to be the problem. What you’ll invariably find is [that] it’s a toothless old lady.
Step into fear this week.
~ Coach Alex