Tom Brady says the role of a leader is to make teammates feel uncomfortable

Tom Brady: Being great means leaving your comfort zone.

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00:00We've all faced these different challenges in life, and we've all faced our own adversities,

00:03and we look at all the hardest things that have ever happened in our life, and the biggest

00:07challenges we ever faced. We look back at those, and we realize those were absolutely the best

00:12things that could have happened. I look at my career now, 23 years of playing, and I've been

00:16retired for, you know, basically a year and a half, and I think there's no way I would have

00:21had the success had I not gone through all the challenges of high school sports, and the

00:26challenges of college sports. I look at so many of these young athletes who are never forced to go

00:30outside of their comfort zone. What do they do? They're told how great they are their whole life.

00:36They have people that coddle them, that make sure that the environment that they're in,

00:39they never have to push beyond their limits. Even some of the greatest athletes in the world never

00:44have had to go outside of their comfort zone. I played with a lot of athletes, and part of my

00:48role as a leader was to make these guys feel uncomfortable. Part of even how great they were,

00:53I was always focused on making sure that they were working harder than they even thought they could work.