Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance
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2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!Super Bowl–winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. He also works every day with young men who are trying to achieve significance through football and all that goes with a professional athletic career—such as money, power, and celebrity. Coach Dungy has had all that, but he passionately believes that there is a different path to significance, a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, and allegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. Uncommon reveals lessons on achieving significance that the coach has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God. A particular focus of the book: what it means to be a man of significance in a culture that is offering young men few positive role models.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction xiPart I Develop Your Core 11 Character 32 Honesty and Integrity 93 Humility and Stewardship 174 Courage 29Part II Love Your Family 375 How to Treat a Woman 396 Fatherhood 517 Respect Authority 65Part III Lift Your Friends and Others 758 Friendship 779 Taking Counsel 8310 The Power of Positive Influence 8911 Mentoring 95Part IV Your Full Potential 10112 Powerful Thoughts 10313 Education and Athletics 11114 Career, Work, and Money 11715 Goals and Risk 12516 Alcohol and Drugs 13117 Failure 137Part V Establish A Mission that Matters 14318 Style versus Substance 14519 Priorities 15120 Being versus Doing 15721 Following Your Dreams 16122 Creating Balance 167Part VI Choose Influence over Image 17323 Respect for Yourself and Others 17524 Sexual Integrity 17925 Platforms 18726 Role Model 191Part VII Live Your Faith 19727 Eternal Self-Esteem 19928 Relationship with Christ 20329 Faith 20730 Purpose 21131 Significance 215Epilogue 221Q&A With Coach Dungy 225About the Authors 259
