“Everything that you go through, every experience you deal with is something that’ll make you or break you.” - Jeff Mack Jr.
He says- “I think in adversity, there lies opportunity. These are situations that are unprecedented. These are all things that come out of the blue. And that’s what life is. Life is a mixture of the wicked. What I mean by that is, you think you’ve got a path and then something comes in and just knocks about the box, right? And so you have to figure out how to pivot. You have to figure out how to then alter your course ...So to me, I look at these challenges as opportunities. Now, it’s really hard when you’re in an opportunity or when you’re in that situation of having to deal with adversity..it may not it may not seem like an opportunity at the time, but it truly is. Everything that you go through, every experience you deal with is something that’ll make you or break you. If you are goal-oriented and if you want to succeed in life,you have to take that challenge on and then you have to beat it. You can’t let it break you. “How do you push yourself when no one else will push you? I think it’s easy to have a coach. I think it’s easy to have teammates around you that someone else can be the leader and someone else can say, ‘hey, keep up with me. Hey, you get that extra rep in’. Now you have to do it on your own. I think that’s worth it. I think you’ll get a chance to see who you are and who you can become.”
Mack Jr. credits a lot of his hard work mentality to his athletic upbringing, particularly his time as a Raider, and to his parents. He says, ““I grew up with a dad (Jeff Mack, Sr, also former Badgers player and school football coach) who was very much “stick to a script, do the right things, do them well, move forward in life and always have a plan and a plan B”. I had a mom who was goal- oriented beyond belief. And so those are my two kinds of focuses on goal orientation. I think I’ve always tried to instill that into my kids.” He then went on to give advice to young athletes everywhere who are impacted by virtual schooling and shut downs. While directed to them, his poignant words can easily be directed to any facet of life.
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