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20th February 2016
10:14pm GMT

"The thing that the guy has is that insane growth mindset, Black said in a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. "To him, anything is possible.
"If you win the 155lb belt, okay you go fight Robbie (Lawler). Oh okay, if you won that, who are you going to fight? (Luke) Rockhold? And then Jon Jones?
"There are limits, you know what I mean. There are f**king limits. But he actually believes there are none, and that belief means that he is better at everything than he was yesterday.
"There has to be a point. But that belief that there is no point, that belief that there is no limit whatsoever is extremely powerful when it’s put together with a drive of a work ethic – an insane work ethic. That is a powerful thing."
McGregor famously said that 'talent doesn't exist and we're all equal human beings' a mantra which, backed by real hard work and dedication to improving as a fighter, has seen him achieve so much so soon.
Black, who currently works alongside Straight Blast Gym's sports psychologist David Mullins, continued: "He is his own mental coach – he is on his own journey. Not that he doesn’t want information from David, but he wants it from 50 sources.
"He’s consuming philosophy and ideas on how to improve, ideas of what it is to be your authentic self, peak performance – all that kind of stuff. Constantly consuming it."
This supreme confidence, focus and mental fortitude has already got him to the cusp if greatness in the UFC. If he can overcome RDA in a few weeks time it will elevate to a level we've never seen any fighter reach in the organisation.
And then who knows what? Suddenly the rumours of a shot at Robbie Lawler's welterweight title at UFC 200 don't look so far fetched after all.Explore more on these topics: