Memory Lane Podcast Sample 2
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In his nonfiction book, Outliers. The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000 hour rule, which basically says that if you really, really want to be good at something, you need to at least devote 10,000 hours to doing it. His examples in the book include pro athletes, the Beatles, even Bill Gates and himself. Makes sense. Think about something that you're really good at. You've probably spent 10,000 hours doing it, whether it's playing golf or cooking or driving a car. Maybe it's even watching television. Whatever it is, you've spent a lot of time doing it. So here's my theory within Malcolm Gladwell's theory, within all of that time that 10,000 hours there are these defining moments that change everything. They propel you to even greater expertise into whatever it is you're really good at. And one of those defining moments, a moment in the life of a person who is really, really good at what she does is the focus of today's memory lane podcast with me, your host, Chris Brinkley. More of this. I think this if you've never heard the memory lane podcast, here's how it works. Imagine if you had a photograph that meant the world to you, and it was in a frame, and the actual frame and glass were so dusty that you could barely see the picture. My job is to get a paper towel and a bottle of Windex and go to work, making that prized possession visible again. Except it's not a picture in a frame. It's a beloved memory in someone's mind. One way to make that memory clearer is to talk to the people who were part of it, take their stories, put them together and find out what really happened. And that is the premise of the memory lane podcast. The memory were Visiting today on Memory Lane is Heather Butler's memory. Heather is in her early twenties. She has a contagious smile. She's about five foot five and weighs £125. Now. One thing I've learned in life is you never ask a woman her height or weight. But when other Butler Aiken tell you, she's 551 25 because it's public knowledge. After all, she became one of the best basketball players in the entire world. Heather let her high school team toe an undefeated season, he helped lead her college team to four tournament appearance. She holds the record for most points in a game with 44. She did it twice. She holds her school's record for career point. She holds the record for most consecutive games, where she hit a 3 80 games in a row, along with the single season record of 34 consecutive games, where she had a three. She scored double figures in 129 consecutive games every game of her college career. That's the second longest streak in the history of the Devil, and she became her school and conferences all time. Leading scorer. 50,865. That's good for number 16 in the history of women's basketball, surpassing players who played before she was even born. See, I told you she was one of the best basketball players in the world. And to prove it even further, she ended up on basketball's biggest stage. She made it all the way to the W N B A. Now back to the 10,000 hour rule before Heather Butler even got close to hitting 10,000 hours. She was 14 or 15 years old. A sophomore in high school, she met a coach that changed the trajectory of everything. His name is coach Kevin McMillan. We were talking about one of the most significant memories of your lifetime, and it involved Coach MacMillan. So before we talk about the memory, I just want you to tell me about Coach MacMillan. Oh, man. What to say about custom villains? A lot to say. Well, first of all, he's like a he, like, literally a dad to me. Um, he's my father Role model. Um, he is such a great guy. He's always there for you when you need him. He will drop absolutely everything just to be there for you. If I called him right now and said I needed you just tow. Come. I don't know it. Just give me a water some. He would literally do that for me or for actual anybody. And what does coach Kevin McMillan have to say about Heather Butler? Overall, she was the daughter that I didn't have before. We got alley right. Then she became the older sister to all three kids. You know, she's been a family member is the best way that I could describe her. Kevin McMillan was Heather Butler's coach in both high school and in college. This doesn't happen very often because most high school coaches don't become had basketball coaches at the college level. Kevin McMillan did, and he immediately recruited his high school player. Had their butler to be part of his college basketball team. He helped make her successful. She, in turn with your abilities on the floor, made him a very successful coach to will forever be indelibly linked in the basketball record books. And their relationship truly is symbiotic. Heather Butler is now a college assistant coach under the direction of head basketball coach Kevin McMillan. Okay, okay, okay, that that should be enough of this set up. I could go on forever and ever about what a great coach he is. What a great basketball player she is. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's get to the memory. Heather Butler has a defining memory that helped make her the basketball player that she became the memory that changed everything. Okay, tell me about the memory, which is one of the top memories of your life. Okay, this hot memory was ushered Millan is when kind of like when I first got it, when it first clicks for me. Um, it was one day in practice and we were going over the plays. Heather is 14 or 15. She's a sophomore in high school practices in a small gymnasium in a small school in a small town in Tennessee. Kevin McMillan is the coach, and he is in his first year as the head basketball coach at the high school. And so Coaster Mylan. I remember where he was sitting. He was sitting on the side of the chair, you know, with his, you know, legs crossing high. It is. So we're going over plays and I wouldn't score. I wouldn't because he wanted me to be a score. In my freshman year, I passed the ball. I did not score. So my mentality was Get the get rid of the ball, you know, Don't don't hog it. Don't score. Don't look to score, I should say, But the opportunity was there. I would, but I wouldn't, you know, be demanding about it. So anyways, so because I wouldn't score because I wouldn't do what he really wanted me to do. He stopped you know, stop the play. And he got onto me pretty hard, like he got into me. And so I didn't really like that. Another team at the time, I had a little You know how the little high school, little attitude, you know, how females can be. So I had that little, you know, I wanted to say that we're going enough that that would be sexist. But you just said it. But what were you 14 or 15? And I think all 14 or 15 year old girls and probably boys to have a little bit of an attitude? Yes. Oh, yeah. First round at eight. I was at the age where you know you are not always thought you knew it all. Look, we all know exactly what she's talking about, because at some point, we were also a 14 or 15 year old with a know it all attitude. And we knew how to make the I'm disgusted. And I'm smarter than you anyway. Facial expression