Alan Stein Jr.Alan Stein Jr.

Alan Stein Jr.

Performance Coach, Professional Speaker, Published Author & Podcast Host

Alan Stein Jr. is a corporate performance coach and world-renowned speaker. He spent more than fifteen years working with the highest-performing basketball players on the planet. Alan delivers high-energy keynotes, interactive workshops, and impactful full-day trainings to help organizations improve performance, cohesion, and accountability. He inspires and empowers everyone he works with to take immediate action and improve mind-set, habits, and productivity. Alan teaches how the same strategies that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level can be utilized in business to build a winning culture. He is an amicably divorced father of twin sons (Luke and Jack) and a daughter (Lyla) and lives just outside of Washington, DC.
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Philosopher's Notes on Alan Stein Jr.'s Books

Raise Your Game
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Raise Your Game

by Alan Stein Jr.

Alan Stein is a peak-performance coach who was immersed in the basketball world for fifteen years and now applies that wisdom to the broader game of life. I’m a huge fan of peak performance books, especially those with sports themes so I enjoyed this book. It’s broken down into three parts, capturing the various roles we play in life and work: Part I: Player, Part II: Coach and Part III: Team. Each section features a set of five core virtues we need to master and integrate across each domain. Big Ideas we explore include the importance of Self-Awareness (it's virtue #1!!), two case studies on discipline (featuring Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant), the comparison game (note: you will always (!) lose), the five virtues of being a great Coach, and one more rep (up Hell on the Hill).

Quotes by Alan Stein Jr.

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Learning how to control the controllables is imperative to maximizing performance. When you get distracted by things you don’t control, your performance suffers. We have limited energy, attention, and resources—so put them where they can actually make a difference.
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Well-rounded is overrated. Use your self-awareness to double down on what you do best. Find the one thing you do better than anyone else and continue to pour into that.
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Control the controllables. Don’t focus on the outcome, focus on the process.
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True leaders are magnetic; people want to follow them because they’re attracted to the vision that the leader embodies. People have to believe in the who before they follow the what.
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View life as a series of privileges, not obligations. Change your ‘have to’s’ to ‘get to’s.’ I didn’t have to climb a mountain. I got to climb a mountain.
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