Alex Smith stood poised, calm, and collected. He scanned the TED Talk audience and delivered two key pieces of advice he received during his tenure as the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, don’t worry, and just live.
Alex Smith explained that Jim Harbaugh would tell the team before they would take the field on game day, “Play as hard as you can, as fast as you can, for as long as you can. And don’t worry.” Smith went on to say, “It sounds simple, and it is, but I guess I didn’t really believe it was possible until it came from somebody that I trusted.