Success often gets credited to talent, opportunity or simple luck. Jim Brown, widely regarded as one of the greatest American football players in history, pointed somewhere else entirely. "I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was," he said. His toughest critic was never an opposing team or someone in the media. It was his own expectation of himself, set high enough that outside judgment genuinely could not compete with it, a discipline that carried him through nine remarkable seasons in the NFL and continued shaping how he lived the rest of his life afterwards.
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