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Youth sports: “You need elite facilities to become an elite athlete.”

Jalen Brunson, NBA Finals MVP:

Now that kids can learn 10x faster, schools and classrooms no longer need to look like they have for generations.

They can become places where kids love to be, discover their passions, and develop the skills to pursue them.

Here is one of ours at Texas Sports Academy

We’re building the best sports academies in the world.

- Elite academics powered by @AlphaSchool

- Pro-level coaching in every sport

- AI systems helping us grow faster and operate smarter than any school before us

The goal is simple:

#1 in every sport

Stay tuned.

IMG has nicer facilities than us.

That's the only thing they beat us at.

They spend their money on buildings. We spend ours on the things that actually develop a kid: the athletes, the coaches, the academics.

In our schools, kids do 2 hours of personalized, mastery-based learning, learn 2x faster than a traditional school, and then spend the rest of the day on elite skill development.

Our basketball team, Dynamic Prep led by Jermaine O'Neal, is #1 in Texas, won the Overtime Elite Championship, and is ranked above IMG.

Our baseball team, The Bennett School, won the NAA national title and is #1 in the nation.

Turns out you don't need a resort. All you need is great teammates, great coaches, great academics, and a place to play.

Brian Chesky runs Airbnb on the same principle that built every dynasty in modern sports.

He just told @patrick_oshag what it is:

"Don't focus on winning. Focus on getting all the inputs perfect."

He learned it from John Wooden, who won 10 NCAA championships in 12 years and never said the words "winning" or "losing" to his players.

The greatest coaches and athletes share the same philosophy.

- Bill Belichick, 6 Super Bowls: "Do your job." Every player owns one input.

- Kobe Bryant: "The mindset isn't about seeking a result. It's about the process of getting to that result. It's a way of life."

- Michael Jordan: "I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. When you think about the consequences, you always think of a negative result."

- Nick Saban, 7 national titles: "The more you emphasize winning, the less you can concentrate on what actually causes success."

- Steve Kerr, 4 NBA championships, never sets a goal to win a number of games. Sets process goals like passing the ball 300 times per game.

- Bill Walsh, 3 Super Bowls, wrote a book called "The Score Takes Care of Itself."

- Pete Carroll, Super Bowl plus 2 BCS titles: "Master the elements that are 100 percent under your control."

- Gregg Popovich, 5 NBA championships: "Pound the rock." A stonecutter hits the rock 100 times with no crack. On the 101st it splits. It wasn't that blow. It was every blow before it.

- Vince Lombardi, 5 NFL titles: "We will chase perfection, knowing we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence."

- Roger Federer told the Dartmouth class of 2024 that across his 1,526 career matches, he won 80% of the matches but only 54% of the individual points. The best tennis player in the world loses almost every other point. He just refuses to dwell on the one that's behind him.

50+ championships and 20 Grand Slams across 6 sports across 70 years. None of them coach the scoreboard. All of them focus on the inputs.

Master the inputs and the output becomes inevitable.