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Justin Su'a

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“At a problem from a different angle. And I feel safe to do so. And I have substantiated research and principles and models to support where I'm coming from. So I'm trying to leverage and find freedom of learning how to leverage my time in a very demanding job to be able to be home more with my family. I'm trying to master and have more freedom over my energy by learning about nutrition and sleep. I'm trying to gain financial freedom by not learning, not just learning the financials and accounting of money and how to use my money, but the psychology of money. Morgan Hausle's work and just understanding what it does and biases. And so right now, success to me is freedom, just trying to have freedom, which is a function of mastery.”
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“Success for me is freedom and not freedom that has to be given to me Freedom that is earned through mastery I think playing piano, for example, if you were to tell me to play Maryhead a little lamb, I would have no clue what to do. But if you would show me I can pluck away Mary had a little lamb and I could do the best I could, given my level of expertise, which is nothing, very low. But then you bring a concert pianist in and have her play Mary have a little head a little lamb. She has all the freedom in the world because she understands the fundamentals. She's a master of her domain, and so her freedom is a byproduct of mastering the fundamentals. I'm in the point of my life right now where I'm trying to master different aspects of my life so I can experience the freedom that comes with it. And where freedom comes, creativity comes. I love creativity. I love to feel that I am coming at.”
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“The map is not the territory. Maybe they had a plan. Maybe they're right. And say, oh, broken bat single, I hit a little swibbler away from the shift, and they can say, hey, even though I have four hits on paper, there are some things I need to do better next time. So those are two off the top of my head, mental models that I use personally as I'm working with people on an individual scale.”
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“Going to happen is my heart is going to expand and it's going to signal to my brain to get the blood pump, get my heart rate pumping. If I exhale my diaphragm goes up, my heart starts to shrink, brain sends a signal to my heart, slow your heart down. And so the players know focus on the exhale. Let me get some good long deep exhales, and that serves as a balancing loop. So there's one. So we, and I don't use this language with the players, by the way. It gets a lot more simple than that. We do not talk like that, but that's what's going on in my mind to help the players. And then I think another one common one is we spoke about this earlier as the map is not the territory. A player can have, let's say baseball. It's such an easy one to talk about. A player can go 0 for four with four strikeouts. On paper, that's a very bad day. Very, that's a rough day. And in some cases, an embarrassing day.”
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“The playoffs or in the World Series in high leverage stressful situations, players will recognize that their heart rate is up. Oh, there's a signal. I need to activate a balancing loop. I need to bring my heart rate down because it is getting outside of my reference level. What do they do? They have been taught diaphragmatic breathing. So they know that, okay, if I focusing on the exhale, if I inhale,”
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“I think the ones that we organically talk about don't explicitly talk about are feedback loops, systems thinking. And one in particular, I'll give you a specific example. We'll take arousal control. So an athlete has a certain arousal control reference point. They have their set points. It's probably at a higher level than your average person because they're playing under the bright lights in front of fans. Like their heart rate's up all the time. A lot of pressure is going on. Now they're used to that. They have a certain reference point and we even call it a number of intensity on the scale of one to 10, what's your reference level of where you play at your best? A lot of players will say, oh, I'm at my best from five to seven, from six to eight. They describe what it feels like and so forth. Anything higher is too much. Anything lower is too small. And then what they create are these balancing loops. If they're too low, okay, what do you do to get your number up? And if you're too high, what do you do to slow it down? What often happens?”
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“Collecting some personal data. And then you go and you say, okay, try find some patterns. Oh, in the morning I have tons of energy. I'm really good. Oh, one six o'clock hits. I notice I'm a lot more irritable. I'm a lot more impulsive. And then what you do is you go online and you start Googling things. Grab a book, listen to a podcast, okay? How to improve confidence and listen, find these experts out there. I love this because you can learn about yourself, but it starts by asking the questions. If you want better answers, start asking better questions. And that's what I love about this journey in mental performance is that it's tied to so many things. And you could start learning about it right now.”
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“Cognitive performance is sleep, nutrition, exercise, and deep relationships, strong relationships. Number one. So establish that. How are those? Quality of those. I think number two is then start to do some exploration. Pay attention. Start to collect some data on yourself. Just go about your day and notice. Notice your energy. Notice your focus. Ask questions about your confidence. Ask questions about your environment. You can't change what you're not aware of. So pay attention, pick some aspects of your life and say, okay, let me look at my focus, my confidence, and my mood. Let's just pick those three things or my response to stress, my stress levels. And then you just pay attention as you go throughout the day. Notice when your confidence is up. Notice when it's down. Notice when your stress levels are up and what you do about it when it's down.”
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“Is always a difficult question because I My initial question to myself is what's the context? So speaking to a global general audience, I have more questions to consider, some more considerations than prescriptions. So to improve your mental performance is the first thing you need to do, and we talked, you actually mentioned this earlier on, and I completely agree, is the connection between your physical performance and mental performance. And one of the best ways to enhance mental performance is to make sure you have the physio fundamental mentals established. Make sure you're getting quality sleep. Make sure you are getting quality nutrition fueling and exercise and strong relationships. You might think, wait, that's going to help my mind. It absolutely helps your mind. It is the fundamental pillars of mental performance in”
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“Suits up just like that. It's not I'm going to be happy when it's creating this longevity, these systems where you can keep going further and further and further because as the Haitian proverb says, behind mountains are more mountains. Behind goals are more goals. And if you prime yourself for that and say, okay, I need to be ready for the long haul. And a lot of times it's just priming yourself, a mental. Being ready for say, hey, this, I'm not just trying to win today, I'm trying to win for the long haul.”
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“This is another part of that gold gradient effect. We tend, this is the problem with the 30 day weight loss programs. This is the problem with having finite destinations or finish lines to whatever you're trying to achieve. Because what happens a lot of times is once you achieve it, once you sprint past the finish line, what do we tend to do? We take our foot off the gas. And so, and a lot of times because you exert so much effort and so much power to sprint your way towards the end, you're like, oh, that's unsustainable. You can't sustain that amount of effort all the way through. And so what Chris mentions is so true is there is a time for rest and recovery. There is a time where you need to, okay, work like a lion and attack and then rest. Attack and then rest. How can you set your goal?”
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“Did I execute? What was out of my control? Where did I get lucky? What did the opponent, what mistakes did I capitalize from the opponent? What is something that I could take into my next performance? And that's why I think this self-reflection piece is so important to take this same set of questions after a when or after a loss. And use this lens, this self reflection questioning process to ask yourself, no matter if it's a success or a failure. So if you lose, if you ask yourself, okay, what did I do well today? Okay, what went well today? Win or lose? That's a great question to ask yourself. Another question is, what did I learn today? Win or lose? That's a great question to ask yourself. And then last question, what am I going to do better tomorrow? Win or lose? That's a great question to ask yourself. And I think sometimes.”
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“Because losing is so painful. So embarrassing So it's attached with negative emotions. You remember them more. You think about them. You can't sleep. You can't eat, especially if they're compounding over and over again. And so when you're losing, You're always thinking, what can I do to improve it? What can I do to get better? But when you win, a lot of times you think I was supposed to win. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that was supposed to happen. Okay, moving on. Moving on. Instead of pausing and saying, what did I learn?”
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“He got lucky. He got lucky. I'm the one who struck out. I struck myself out. He didn't strike me out. And that's a confidence mechanism. And I'm not going to tell him otherwise, but all I'm saying is to identify what works best for you. How do you need to frame winning and losing to help you learn lessons and come back a better version of yourself next time? Is it how Chris Bosch views it? then great. That works for you great. Is it how Larry Gelwick views it? Who is the coach of the Highland Rugby team who you either lose or get beaten? Whatever works best for you. So that's why frameworks and framing is very important. And also be aware that your framing might change as you change as you evolve. It could change over time.”
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“Phrase out there that says sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. I can't stand that phrase. And the reason I can't stand that phrase is because it implies two things. It implies that you can't learn from winning. Like you win or you learn? No, you can learn a lot from winning. Success leaves clues. What it also implies, losing is some word that no one says of. Oh, I didn't lose. I learned. No, you lost. Own it. You lost. You got beat today, and that's life. You're going to lose sometimes. And instead of flowering it up and say, no, no, I didn't lose. I just ran out of time. I didn't lose. No, like you lost. Now I will say this. There are some individuals. I know an individual who's a major league baseball player. He never likes to say that the pitcher beat me. He'll never say the pitcher beat him ever, ever. No, that pitcher didn't.”
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“You didn't give your best effort. Losing is you beat yourself. That is truly, truly losing, where you didn't do whatever it took. You lacked preparation. You just beat yourself from mistakes, from maybe it could be mental mistakes that for one reason or another you just felt sorry for yourself, you're making excuses, mental mistake, whatever it may be. Being beaten, on the other hand, could be seen as you did everything that you possibly could. You checked every single box. You gave your absolute best. The other team was just better than you that day. And that is being beaten. The difference between losing and being beaten. I struggle with that sometimes, but I think in some contexts it's very important to say and very important to distinguish a phrase that people who know me know that I do not like.”
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“Yeah, I was actually inspired by it from a question that you had with Chris Bosch and for those who did not see that episode, I completely agree with him. In pro sports, at the highest level, There is no tiptoeing around like, oh, we didn't lose, we got beat. No, you lost. An L is an L, and a win is a win. Sometimes you win in dominating fashion and sometimes you win ugly, but you win. At the end of the day, we're trying to win the Super Bowl, a World Series, a championship, whatever it may be. However, context is huge. And when you're working with amateur athletes and even sometimes in the professional realm, it's important to understand this dynamic between losing and being beat. Now losing, you can frame it as”
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“Was not there. Go do something else. But if they know, hey, the odds are against me, but I love it, so I'm not going to stop doing it. And so that's what we're trying to teach our kids many times unsuccessfully. We're fumbling, bumbling along, but it's been a fun process.”
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“And I always tell them, Do you know what the odds of you getting this role is? They used to be 95%, 99%. Now they've learned that, oh, 5%. And it's probably lower than that. But does that mean don't do it? No, Daddy. I'm still going to do it. Why? Because I love it. And I learned that from these athletes. The athletes are the ones who tell me that the odds were against them. They shared with me everything that they did, and they always had coaches and parents telling them you should go do something else. You should go do this. You should have a backup plan. But none of them did. And I'm working exclusively with this top 1%, half a percent with people who overcame all these odds. And what they tell me is that what propelled them is their drive. Like we talked about, their love for doing what they do. And what would have been more rational is to pick something else because the odds of making it the highest level.”
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“This is what I want to do for a living. And so we said, okay, if you want to do this, you're going to get you acting lessons and so forth. And she did it for a long time, passionate about it. We take her to Los Angeles, put her in front of an agent to have an agent. Agent says, no, you're out. I mean, no, like you're not going to cut it. I'm walking her to the car. She has these big crocodile tears coming down. I said, what do you think, sweetheart? She goes, I think I need a better acting coach. And I said, okay, we'll get you a better acting coach. And so she works on it. Long story short, she gets an agent. Move to Los Angeles. She auditions hundreds of times. Doesn't get any jobs until she gets a phone call from Dwayne Johnson's people. She becomes”
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“Practice some form of autonomy in the house. Let me choose which battles I want. Let me really share with my kids my own failures. Let me push back on my own beliefs and have my kids when they say dead, why do you believe that to be able to say, you know what? You're right. I don't, that's not necessarily true, but that's what I was taught. And so they have really kept me honest. And my wife, both of us honest in how we go about it's a very organic way. And so just kind of a proud father moment. So my daughter, one day she's like, I want to be an actor.”
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“Raising kids is so difficult. It blows my mind how we have three. We have three teenagers. Your kids with the same parents in the same home eating the same food could be starkly different Look to a kid, they get the feedback. Okay, got it. Another child, it's just way different. And one thing that I have noticed is they've met these professional athletes. They've seen, they've been in clubhouses, they've seen me and these stories. They've seen World Series. They've seen me come home from an ON16 season. They've watched me in these different things. And one thing I know that I have learned from these pro-athletes is the role their parents played in what they do. And I would hear it for the better or for the worse. I worked at the IMG Academy for a long time, worked with hundreds, thousands of youth athletes, and I would hear stories of mom and dad for the better or for the worst. And I would learn these lessons and say, okay, let me allow my kids to fail. Let me allow my kids to”
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“Don't have the words for it. And so I had to learn how to navigate that and build relationships in a language with people of a culture that I was unfamiliar with. And so I utilize a lot of the things that lessons I learned there in everything, really everything I do today from being a parent to my professional life. It was the best, not just the best two years of my life. It was the best two years for my life.”
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“Preconceived notions about you. Like, I've never been so loved and never been so hated in my life. I've had machetes pulled on me, rocks thrown at me, like people telling me if I threaten my threatening my life, no clue who I was. But that was just how I was viewed. And I thought, wow, that's interesting. They don't even know me. And it was just, it was incredible. I learned that teamwork, I learned how to be a leader. I learned how to navigate difficult situations. I learned how to communicate. How do you, I had to keep it simple there. I had to keep it incredibly simple, not only because you want to keep things of spiritual things simple, but I didn't have a robust vocabulary, so I had to keep it really simple. And so it was trying to take something that in your heart and you want to share it with somebody, but you don't, you literally.”
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“No going out to parties, no movie, no music. You just go every single day. And in many cases, I have no electricity, no running water with a companion with somebody who is from another country, doesn't even speak English in some cases, and you go. And it was an unbelievable experience that I learned so much from how to speak another language. I had learned how to speak Spanish. And now when I work with athletes from Korea or Venezuela or Cuba who are here, I from firsthand could tell them I know what it's like to be thrown into a different culture. I know it's like to not be able to order food. I know it's like to cry yourself to sleep because you're thinking, I don't have anyone around here. I don't have my family and friends here to support me through this difficult time. Another thing it taught me is that people have these.”
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“I never talk about this on podcasts. No one really asks about this. It was a very difficult decision. And it was a decision. I wasn't forced. I wasn't told I had to do it. I didn't get paid to do it. I actually had to pay money to go do it. And it was just something that I knew I wanted to do. I knew not even that I had to do. I was excited to do it. I remember being told by a major league baseball scout, you're about to make the worst decision in your baseball career if you go do this. And I thought about it and I said, you know what? He's probably right. And I went. And it was torn. So for two years, I'm dropped in Nicaragua. And at the time, it was a third world country. I don't speak Spanish. I talk to my family twice a year, no TV, no baseball.”
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“Done things and put so much time into a podcast, into a book, into something and your family members, your friends are like, why are you doing this? Like no one else knows about it, but you know about it and you're driven. And that's what it feels like. It's when you are so set, heart set on something that you want to do the best you can. And I don't think it's something you could force. It's something that's organic, that bubbles up and you don't know when you're going to get bit by the driven bug, but when it comes out, and it's an exhilarating feeling. It's amazing. And then you have people like these elite performers and even business professionals, maybe Elon Musk has it. Maybe Sarah Blakely with Spanks has it. These people who found what they're passionate about and then they're just driven to do it. And it's like, all right, and they want to surround themselves with people who are at extremely...”
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“idea when you are pursuing something when your heart is on fire and you can't study it enough you can't learn about it enough and and someone you might think to yourself oh i can't ever be like that i can't be like michael jordan i can't be like tom brady chances are there's been a moment in your life where you were so driven by something you that you wouldn't take no for an answer and you couldn't stop thinking about it you couldn't stop researching it and that's a form of being driven. In that moment you're experiencing what it looks like.”
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“When I hear stories of Jordan and Tom Brady and Kobe Bryant and just these elite athletes in their sport, Simone Biles, who just dominate. You see their habits, you see their desire, this insatiable desire to be the best in the world. And to your point, it's contagious. And if you're not with them, you better step up or you're out. And it's true. And I think it's also true even in the workforce. You get around these people who have a higher motor, a higher cadence, a higher passion and drive to be the best in the world. They're very unique. You don't see them all the time, but when you're around this kind of individual, this person to your point, it does cause you to look at yourself and say, okay, I better step up. I better step up. There's another gear. There's another level. There's another level inside of me that I can get to. And that's why I love team sports so much. Or that's why I love being surrounded by fountains. This is another example of a fountain in some way of another.”
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“Flow to where all of a sudden the stock of whatever you're looking for, whether it be psychological safety, is going to take a little while for that to be embedded, for that to be the norm. And I think that's where people struggle is they underestimate the process and how long it's going to be. We come in and say, okay, we're just going to put a this year, our year is going to be no fear. Everything's going to be no fear, no fear anywhere. And it's like, okay, wait, what are we talking about? Like how, and you got to define it. You got to create a system. You got to have behaviors. What does it look like? What does it not look like? And really create systems and norms that are low hanging fruit for you and then slowly build from that. And I think kind of all over the place with this answer, but it's, I see it all the time and it's such a great question.”
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“With what the standards and the norms are. So I think number one is to, okay, what standards do you want? And what are the behaviors that will model or signal this standard? And then you look at the system. Where in our system does our system, can it support this? When you talk about the extra gear, when you talk about someone who wants to write a book, someone who wants to enter a fitness competition, someone who wants to start a business, those are very difficult things to do that are going to take a lot of time and a lot of times people will underestimate how hard it's going to be and how long it's going to take. And so if you set out to set a standard, you can't just put it on the shirt and say, okay, we're positive culture now. We're a learning culture now. You need to understand that there's going to be a lag. It takes time to be able to create enough.”
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“I think in order to whatever bar you have or whatever norms you want to create or standards in your term, what you said that you want to create Needs to be supported by the system you create. I think a lot of, and we've been talking a lot about systems and environments in this conversation, I have seen organizations, not necessarily professional sports organizations, but just different organizations where the leadership wants to have certain norms, certain standards. However, their modeling, they don't signal those norms themselves and the system isn't built to satisfy those norms. How can you say we're going to create the standards is going to be psychological safety where everyone feels safe to be creative and fail, but in a meeting when someone comes up with this idea that might not work, you cut their head off and say, that's a dumb idea. It's like, okay, what we're modeling and signaling is not in alignment with.”
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“You might find a different story. So I think a lot of it comes down to society. We love the win. We love a winner. We love stories of winners. We want to hear about how they did what they did. And so I think if you really want to gain even better insight, is take a look at some of those who aren't winners and see what they did. And you'll notice that a lot of them are doing some of the exact same things that the winners are doing. And in some cases, in some cases, they might be doing some things even better than what the winners were doing.”
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“A lot of them were doing the exact same thing. A lot of these guys and these men and women who came in second place and third place had the same process and in some cases even better process. What I have learned in pro sports is that winning masks so many things. You could win, but what's talked about is how great your culture in is you're winning, but it just overshadows all of the deficiencies and the problems in the system. And then you look at losing a team who quote unquote loses. And it losing overshadows the great leadership, the great strategy, the great process that they have. And so that mental model that actually learned from you is the map is not the territory, is we can get enamored by the end results and say, oh, that's so successful. But if you take a look under the hood.”
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“Everyone needs to find their own definition of success. What does success look like to you? I think people struggle when they allow the world or society to dictate what success looks like. That's where I have seen people, including myself, become the worst version of themselves pursuing a goal, pursuing a definition of success that really doesn't matter to you. I can think in my own life. My definition of success has evolved over time, completely different now than it used to be. And I think another thing is one of the reasons for that is how we view people and organizations that we perceive as successful. The books are written about the best in the world. The documentaries are made about world champions. The movies are made about these amazing, credible stories. But what we learn from survivorship bias is that.”
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“One stolen base away. I'm 10 hits away. And I'm like, oh, okay, all right. And so it's, okay, how do I keep things in perspective, just trust my ability? And so these are conversations that are had, not just with professional athletes, but even with people who are about to professionals about to close a quarter or whatever it may be as they're getting closer. It's like, okay, let me keep doing what I've been doing instead of trying to do a little more. Just stick with the process. I think we have a bias towards action. I think there really is an action bias as opposed to, hey, just keep doing what you're doing. Trust what you're doing was right, and trust that your process will yield the results that you're looking for as they had the entire time leading up to this point. I think when you see a bonus around the corner or whatever it may be, you have this propensity.”
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“That's a great question. And to answer the initial question, our contract set up like that. I have not, I don't, I don't know. I don't know. That's a circle of competence that I don't have. And so with that, but to your point, that's so true because a lot of times with incentives and bonuses like that in the professional sports world, there are so many uncontrollable factors. And when you are trying to control something that's uncontrollable, there are some unintended things that pop up. You may be perceived as more selfish. You may be perceived as a little more panic when the things that you try to control but can't end up controlling you. And I have seen firsthand where I see players a little bit more stressed out than normal. Their reference level or their set points a little bit, their mood, a little more agitated, a little bit more chippy. And then you say, hey, what's going on? Oh.”
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“Newton's laws and object in motion tends to stay in motion. They're building a little energy, a little momentum. And once you know it, they're back on track and they're rolling. And again, this isn't a clean fix and it's a clean trick necessarily, but these are some of the things that we try to implement to help players not only pursue their goals, but to stick with them and to keep the energy up when times get tough.”
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“It's the purpose behind everything that they do. Now, there are moments where you start to struggle. There are moments where you go through slumps. There are moments when you don't win a game. I have been a part of that where you do not win a game the entire season. And it's devastating and your why and your purpose starts to get clouded. And so in those cases, when you start to struggle individually or as a team, it's somehow creating a temporary light at the end of the tunnel. Because sometimes you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. You can't see the finish line. And so your motivation dips, your behavior dips, your drive dips. And so it's like, okay, how do we help you create a temporary light at the end of the tunnel? Because you're driven when you see something and the player creates a temporary one. What are you going to do this Sunday? Okay. What's your goal for right here right now? And then applying the, what do you call it? New.”
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“To be more process focused, that didn't work out with some of them. They're like, no, don't tell me how to shape and how I should view my goals. That won't work for me. So I learned very quickly that, okay, even though the research says that it'd probably be more ideal to focus on the process, it's the drive for the next contract to win the Super Bowl, to win the World Series, to be a Hall of Famer. That is what lights their fire. Now, what I have also noticed is the gold gradient effect being very prevalent in these athletes. Now, the gold gradient effect is essentially states that a person will increase their effort the closer they get to the goal. And one of the things is these people who are truly, truly driven, they have a vivid, bright image of what they want. It is clear as day and they are driven every single day.”
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“Know what? There is actually a book called Drive Out There I think there are some physiological components that attributed to it. There could be some nature part, some nurture part to it. I think it's very complex. However, just some patterns that I've noticed is the Hall of Famers who I've talked to or who I've seen or the best of the best For a lot of them, there's this obsession, this point to where they are almost obsessed with whatever thing they are trying to pursue. Now some of them are very process driven and they're obsessed with the process and the results are a byproduct of the process. There are some who are obsessed with results and they're driven by results. And I will never, I've tried it a few times to nudge a professional athlete who are results focused.”
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“Our self conscious and lack confidence and lack focus, but they're able to put it together and to go out there and execute to the best of their ability in that moment. And I think you'll hear a lot of athletes say that, yeah, there are moments where I lack confidence, but I go out there and do it anyway because I focus on my actions and not how I feel.”
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“You do can give you confidence to lean into difficulty and lean into obstacles. Now what also happens is you want to be careful is that poor performance derailing your confidence and these professional athletes who I work with, there are constant flows of input that lead the confidence and there are constant flows of outflows that derail confidence. And so what these players are focus on is they say, okay, I might not have a lot of confidence right now. I might not have a lot of, but you know what? I'm going to trust my training. I'm going to trust that I know what to do in this situation and I'm going to go out there and give it the best I can regardless of how I feel. And I think that is one of the hallmarks of anybody who's really good at what they do. They still have moments of fear. They still get really nervous. They still have”
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“Only to get your results back and you perform poorly. Yeah, that's happened to us. Has there been a moment where you've gone into something, gone and take a test, and you didn't feel very confident about it, but you got an A. You did very well. Yes, that's happened. So what does that teach us about confidence? That confidence isn't an accurate predictor of future success. And so what the research also shows is, yeah, we'd like to have more of it. You'd like to have more of it than not have it. And the research is called self-efficacy theory, and this is Bandura. Now, to apply the research, there are some things that you can do to increase confidence. And some of those things could be your level of preparation. It could be your current experience success that you're having. It could be your past success that you've had. It could be the positive thoughts you have. It could be establishing a purpose, having a why behind what you”
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“Consider themselves very confident. Then you ask them, okay, so how do you do it? So, how are you successful? And they say, I don't focus on how I feel, I focus on my actions. I focus on actions, not feelings. And so I think a Russian proverb explains this very well. A bird can rest peacefully on a branch, not because of its trust in the branch, but because of its trust in its ability to fly. And I think where people struggle with confidence is it's often misplaced. Instead of being placed on their ability to bounce back, their ability to learn from failure, their confidence based on something that might not be there when they need it. The example I always give is have there ever been moments in your life, we'll say school. A lot of people listening to this have experienced school. Has there been a moment where you've gone in to take a test and you're extremely confident”
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“This is a topic that is discussed all the time, and I think it is often misunderstood in terms of people over index its importance. And what I mean by that is they overestimate how important confidence is. I have learned through Talking to professional athletes, how many of them lack confidence? They will tell it to my face. They'll say, I don't have confidence. There are players who I will not name, but who all of us know, you would be surprised to hear how they would not.”
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“She notices it and brings it back. It worked. She, instead of brushing her teeth unconsciously, just kind of going through the motions, she would start to meditate as she was brushing her teeth. And it was really neat to see her go through this process. And to this day, she still does it. I actually asked her about it. It's just part of the process. And so she focused on consistency over intensity. She didn't need to sit there for 20 minutes every single day. two minutes, four minutes a day, the two minutes of brushing your teeth in the morning and night, and she just consistent with it. And she sees how it helps her in every aspect of her life. So that's a little example of how to apply the mental model of consistency over intensity.”
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“To a habit that's already well established. And as she combed over her routine in the morning, she said, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to meditate while I brush my teeth. I do it in the morning and I do it at night. And wouldn't you know she, instead of focusing on her breath, she focus on the bristles going around her gums and her teeth? She puts her mind where she wants, when she wants, when her mind drifts, she”
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“Now it's no, we're not going to have a long session. We're going to have 60 second sessions, more consistently throughout the week. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and you do it the next week and the next week where it's embedded in in mental performance training is built into the system. It's kind of like meditation. There was somebody I was working with who wanted to implement meditation. For some reason, it was she, she couldn't find 20 minutes to do it. Like she's like, I just can't do 20, 20 minutes. And she's like, let me try 10 minutes. And she couldn't do 10 minutes. Now this woman was very starting to get frustrated with herself because she was breaking promises to herself and she was in a give it up completely. I guess I can't meditate. And then we started talking about this concept of habit stacking where maybe you could tie meditation.”
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“At first, you're like, oh, I could do this every day. But if you're not used to working out an hour every single day or two hours every day or whatever it may be, that's going to be a shock to the system at first because it's going to have a domino effect on everything else. You can't just insert something. There's going to be adjustments made in the system whether you intend for that to happen or even unintended unintended consequences of this new habit you're trying to create. Now what you can do instead is what Jim Collins does is fire bullets before cannonballs. Maybe start implementing something small and just be consistent in the example that I gave early on in this podcast we were talking about instead of having an hour long or 30 minute long mental performance session with the players which is that's what they did back in the days. That's how mental skills coaches did.”
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