Frazier was new to me!
The greatest fighter of all time, Mohammed Ali, was racially profiled by the government, dethroned as a champion, stripped of his belts, and banned from boxing because he refused to go fight in Vietnam.
When asked why, he replied, "no Vietcong ever called me a Negro".
When he returned to the ring about 4 years earlier, he met a new champion named Frazier. The champion beat him and gave him his first career loss.
People thought it was over with him, but when he was asked in an interview why he lost to Frazier, guess what his response was:
"Frazier was new to me".
To reflect the accent properly, I would rewrite this as "Frazier was nu to me".
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He wasn't referring to Frazier as a person but as a boxing concept which he hasn't met before. Which means he just needed to improve his boxing skills to accommodate that kind of boxing scenario.
Frazier's boxing style was a combination of a bobbing and weaving with emphasis on a devastating left hook and a very week right hand used mainly as a distraction.
This style of boxing earned Frazier the name Smoking Joe Frazier. With that left hook, Frazier beat the hell out of Ali, put him down on the canvas and even reportedly broke his jaw in that first fight.
But guess what happened in the second and third fights, Ali beat him in both!
Ali wouldn't fight the Vietcongs because it was not the right battle for him, he also wouldn't fight Frazier the same away again twice because he already identified the cause of the initial failure, "Frazier was nu to me"!
You see, sometimes you fail or perform poorly at things not because you didn't try hard enough, or do your best, but simply because the environment was new to you. That kind of venture was totally new to you.
Frazier was nu to you!
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The next time you fail in a business or a venture, I want you to treat that business as your Frazier and print the words,
"Frazier was nu to me".
Following Ali's step and clarity of mind, you should outline the areas that were 'new' to you and come up with improvements that will ensure your subsequent victory.
So many people are in such a hurry to start new ventures and try new opportunities that they don't study the Fraziers of their failed ones. They never take into accounts the smoking parts and the left hooks they were hit within their previous attempts.
And so, sometimes in this society, you see people having 4 - 6 failed ventures back-to-back without demonstrating any sort of improvements.
Frazier was nu to them!
One key reason you haven’t been able to create your own financial success is that the entire success thing is new to you.
Frazier was nu to you.
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