The Warner Way to Build a Powerful Partnership

by Ian Warner on February 9, 2011

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Having a partner as an athlete is a great way to step you game up to the next level. Many times as athletes we want to look out for ourselves but I am going to show you why you should look to have someone who you consider your partner in crime.

Why being solo will leave you SO LOW

Trying to go through life with an “I am going to do everything that I need to be done all by myself” attitude… a lot of the time is too much responsibility for one person to bear.  If you ever get worn down who will pick you up and encourage you, who will you compete with?

Being solo sounds great because you feel as if you are bettering yourself while others get worse but in reality you are not allowing yourself to reach your true potential.

Two Minds Are Better Than One

It is true and there are great advantageous to be seen with having a partner for all the things you do.  This can go for anything important to you in life like school, sports, religion, anything you feel you want to be better at.

  • Provides someone to hold you accountable
  • Less likely to slack off because someone is always around
  • Creates healthy competition
  • Helps you help someone other than yourself
  • Pushes you at your weakness.

The Warner Way

The Warner way is all about how to find the partner that fits you because I got news for you not every person will make a good partner.

Our Story

Even though in this video we are making jokes, in a sense we are DEAD SERIOUS. My brother and I are very close not because we spend a lot of time together or a lot of time talking we really don’t more than any other siblings. We do well together because we both know and understand what are our strengths are and what the other one is good at.

Examples in terms of this blog…

My Strengths

  • Creativity and I have a great Imagination
  • Love to read and write
  • Love to interact with people and help them out
  • Good business sense
  • Hyper

My Weaknesses

  • I don’t have any (I am totally joking lol)
  • Hyper as hell at times
  • Horrible grammar (I always mess up than and then and all types of other things)
  • Have trouble turning great ideas into reality
  • Horrible with computers in every way

His Strengths

  • Can turn dreams into reality
  • Amazing with computers and graphics
  • Understands blogging and websites
  • Calm and collective

His Weaknesses

  • Extra laid back
  • Not very talkative
  • Creativity in some ways

The reason I am laying out all of our strengths and weaknesses is because it shows how we are both good at some things that the other one is not very good at. That is what you want in a great partner. I’m extremely hyper and a go hard all the time while my brother is laid back so we balance each other out. He helps me calm down and gather my thoughts while I push him to get crazier about things.

People love to do what they are good at and avoid the things that they are not as good at. What happens if you take two people with opposite strengths is you will get two very strong people.

(original image by Oscar Kinski)
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