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All right. So yesterday I was telling you that I saw a clip where Conor McGregor — he's one of the top MMA fighters the world has ever produced — his coach mentioned me and the idea of systems over goals as part of the training process for Conor McGregor. And I was sort of bragging about it a little bit on Periscope yesterday that I'd done something useful that crossed into a domain that I would not have expected actually.
And then I realized that Conor McGregor was going to fight last night. I didn't realize that the reason his coach trainer was talking is because the fight was coming up. And suddenly I thought to myself, uh-oh, what if he loses? Here I've been telling everybody that I think I've had some influence, maybe indirectly or in a small way, in the process he's using to train.
But if you don't already know, Conor McGregor won in 40 seconds. Let me say that again. He won the fight in 40 seconds. I believe the total tally of punches that the other guy landed was zero. I think, in fact, check me on this, but I think I heard that the guy, the cowboy or whoever h
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e knocked out, who was a top-level fighter — it's not like he was beating up people who were just starting. This was a top competitor. And the outcome was certainly in question. Conor McGregor beat him in 40 seconds and the other guy didn't land a punch. So I guess you want to read my book, "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big," where I talk about systems are better than goals. If…
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