JJ Redick walked into a Duke locker room and saw a player with three words tattooed across his chest. "I've arrived."

Redick didn't let it slide. His response has stuck with people ever since: “You've never arrived, you're always becoming.”

Ryan Hawk told me that story during an interview on the John Eades Podcast, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. Because you have never arrived, you are always arriving. You have never become; you are always becoming. The best leaders I have ever coached or studied are in a constant pursuit of improvement.

He built his new book, The Price of Becoming, around it. He shared three questions he asks himself every single night that are worth mimicking if you want to focus on constant improvement and who you are becoming:

That's it. Just three questions, asked on repeat, for years. Ryan calls it increasing your surface area for luck. The people who look lucky from the outside are usually the ones who quietly stacked days like this when nobody was watching.

What did you do today that you'd be proud to write down tonight?

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