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I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.
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Reckless
Things Lot
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I think to perfectly understand somebody is to predict their next move.
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Predict
Perfectly
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I don't have anything to hide, but prefer to shine the spotlight on others.
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Spotlight
Hide
Shine
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I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.
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Being Honest
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I've been careful, too careful maybe, about trying to not keep the spotlight on me.
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Spotlight
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I'm a big believer that inclusiveness is helpful because everyone brings a different perspective.
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Believer
Different Perspective
Big Believer
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I like surrounding myself with people who think in sort of the timeframes I do, which is often longer.
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Myself People Who
Surrounding
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I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.
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Picks
Unusual
Draft
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Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.
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Firm
Venture
Venture Capital
Capital
Companies
Practically
Investor
Stated
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I think it's pretty important that you learn how to keep your own scoreboard and how to be focused on what truly matters over the long term.
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Scoreboard
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Often times, when you find an edge, it's not for very long. People figure it out, so you have to try and exploit it, quickly, while you can.
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Long People Find
Often
Edge
Times
Exploit
Figure
Quickly
While
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But making big decisions shouldn't be easy - it shouldn't be that you have an idea, and you get to execute it without anyone questioning it.
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Questioning
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If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because the world will suck it up.
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Alternative
Time World Your
Eaten
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When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.
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Acquire
Draft
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I learned that Yao Ming broke his navicular bone like five days before the 2009 draft. From that moment on, all I thought about was going from zero stars to one star. How do you do it?
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Broke
Bone
Draft
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Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.
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Luck
Nba
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The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I've seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I'm definitely wired in a way that you wouldn't predict it would go wonderfully.
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Last Time
Unemployed
Predict
Time Research People
Wired
Wonderfully
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Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.
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Chosen
World Keep People
World People Name
Robert
Safer
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Every place you can find an edge, you should - the free agent market, the undrafted market, the D-League, international players, Americans playing overseas, international players playing in America, the second round. You should be looking for all those opportunities, finding whatever edge you can.
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Agent
Edge
Round
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I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.
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Good Job
Measuring
Yesterday
Good World Better
Good World Your
Accountable
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