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Justin Su'a

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“Yes, Bruce Lee has the quote consistency over intensity. And I forgot, I'm cutting off part of it, but I think this is an often Misunderstood concept. I think, especially in the new year, we have these desires to set goals and achieve these huge goals and to change our lives, to work out more, to play the guitar, to learn another language. And we think we have to overhaul everything. Now, that takes a lot of energy. That takes a lot of attention. And when you set out to do that, the moment you set out to achieve something like that, you also sign up for the process that's going to get you there. You also sign up for the...”
2022-05-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Justin Su'a: Peak Mental Performance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's identifying who are these fountains of mine really focusing on the fountains? Who are these people I can surround myself with to positively influence my internal environment, as you were mentioning? And so that was just a concept that I absolutely loved.”
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“Shane fountains in this 2022 social media world you could find fountains in the form of poets, writers, scientists, artists, musicians, teachers, you name it, they're out there. Now the opposite of that are drains. Now these are people or concepts or ideas where it kind of it's a problem for every solution. It's making excuses. People who always are always complaining. Now the caution with sharing the fountains and the drains immediately when I share this in public settings at whatever it may be people will say yeah I know a drain this person's a drain that person's a drain I say wait a minute we all have fountain and drain tendencies I could bring my wife and kids in here right now and they could tell you when I have had my drain moments when I was not a fun person to be around and so instead of labeling people as fountains or drains”
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“Their values, they lean into what they're really good at doing. I think we all have people who are fountains in our lives. And when initially you think fountain, you think zest, a lot of times they think, oh, energy and positivity and extroversion is no. You can have people in your life who are fountains of perspective. You can have people in your life who are fountains of organization of critical thinking. And these are those fountains, these people that you go to to help you with these problems. You can have a fountain of humor. Someone who just a knack for levity, they have an ability to lighten the mood. And you call this person and you go around that person. They just, they're there when you need them. It's amazing. Now, there are some people who are like, oh, well, I don't have fountains in my life. I live by myself or I live with my plants. To your point.”
2022-05-17 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · Justin Su'a: Peak Mental Performance · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, you hit on so many incredible things there. One in particular that lit me up is this internal environment, this mental environment that you create an analogy, a metaphor we constantly use is this fountains and drains. Now, any metaphor has this limitations. We all know that. And we could pick apart any kind of metaphor. But what I like about this is just the mental picture that it creates fountains are people who Who lever”
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“The environment. We talk about that often, the music, the spacing, the wording on the walls or not having wording on the walls where players are situated in the clubhouse. All these little things, where the food is in a cafeteria, the healthy food is out in the open and the snacks are hidden under drawers to create a little extra friction in order to get to it. And so it's incredibly, incredibly important. And if anyone is trying to improve, I think he James Clear goes on to say, you want to make good habits easy to do and bad habits hard to do. And that comes down to that environmental design. Take a look at your system that you're living in, that you've created for yourself. And where could you create friction to avoid doing bad things? And where could you avoid friction or diminish friction in order to do those things that you”
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“Environment design popped in my mind. Systems thinking popped into my mind. I thought who did you talk to today? And he goes, Oh, I went to visit my old school. I ran into an old coach. I had a conversation with my dad, and as he was describing his day it dawned on him. Oh my goodness. I hadn't been to that school until since some of my worst days and I was a terrible experience for me. Oh wow, my dad was harping on me about doing this. I need to improve on this. I need to do this better. And it was in this moment where he realized. It was just I was in a bad environment today and now it's all in my head. And so again, not every situation or scenario is like that. It's not as clean, but it opened my eyes to instead of saying, okay, this prescribes something. Let's give a tactic. To pause and consider.”
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“I think James Clear in his book Atomic Habits says it best for me, and I always talk about it. The environment is the invisible hand that shapes behavior. If you want to take a look at someone's behavior, take a look at the system in which they function in. Take a look at Applying the model for systems thinking, I got a text one time. It was a call from a player one time, and he said, oh, I lack confidence. I'm lacking confidence right now. And we had been talking about confidence. He's like, it was interesting how you, for some reason, I don't have confidence right now. And early in my career, I would have said, okay, let's do self-talk. Okay, let's talk about talking yourself instead of thinking yourself, whatever it may be And instead of going there,”
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“Is that this isn't the Justin Sue show. I'm not going to come in mental skill everybody all day. It's how can I collaborate with incredible different departments? How do I collaborate with individuals so that it can be baked into the system as opposed to, okay, now we have to have mental performance time? And so now they just get it in different ways. It's just part of the environment and don't even realize that it's embedded in there already.”
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“Beginning to do a mental minute, talk about a simple concept about how to refocus as they go about. 60 seconds. They're already part of that meeting. And I have a relationship with the staff member. They're like, yeah, of course, that would be great. Now it's working, instead of doing a session on habit formation with all players, hey, let me connect with the nutritionist and let's build like a little habit formation program that you could deploy. The nutritionists can deploy. And I'm not even involved. And so I was able to collaborate with them. It's diaphragmatic breathing with the strength and conditioning coaches. We talk with them and say, okay, how can we help the players do diaphragmatic breathing pre-game? Oh, let's incorporate it before stretch. We're going to do it this way. I'm nowhere to be found. And so I think the key is collaboration so that the players and the staff and the organization realize.”
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“Used in your organization. So another thing that people struggle to give up now is time. Time, attention, and energy are finite resources. Nobody wants somebody, I don't want to go to the coach and say, all right, coaches, can you give me 20 minutes for me to do a mental performance session with the players? Of course not. No, I'm not going to give up this precious time to have them go sit in a room so they can do some mindfulness meditation as good as it is. It's important. It's very important. And so I need to adapt and adjust and apply micro learning and nudge theory to their environment. So instead of doing focus on a one session 30 minute long intensity session, it's focusing on consistency over intensity. The players have meetings all the time. And it's me collaborating with a coach and say, hey, can I have a minute in the”
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“BS radar is very high. Their media are like, what are you trying to put your fingerprints on me so you can put my face on a website and say, oh, you helped me with my mental toughness? Are you trying to sell something? You're going to use me. A lot of professional athletes, that's where it goes. And so at first you can't shove anything. You are not shoving mental skills or tools down their throat. And so I can say all I want, but they're going to watch behavior. They're going to see how I go around, what I do. And so I think, number one, it starts by being there. Being, if it's hot outside, you're out there sweating with them. If it's cold outside, you're out there freezing cold with them. If it's a tough stretch, it's a tough stretch together. And I think that's number one is they see you, just the ability for them to see you. I think number two is how are you?”
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“I think that is the hallmark of. The ability to build relationships, I think number one, is organic. I think it wasn't from a book I read. It wasn't from a podcast. I think it stemmed from watching and copying my parents and how they were, number one. And then number two, it's the double helix. It's in my DNA. It's just how it is. And so I think at first it was an unconscious competence that I had. Where it's like, oh, I just have an ability to make friends. And I think one of those reasons I can build connections is I Let's talk about the population I work with. Everyone's clamoring for their attention. They're incredibly competent at what they do. And they're”
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“Who's in the trenches in the arena with you who sees how things go and how the system is navigated and how you navigate the system to ask questions that other people might not ask you or taken into consideration? So I think that's how I do it. It's a very soft, gentle, subtle way of helping people through the use of hopefully effective questions.”
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“Emotions in the clubhouse. And so it's going around and understanding how systems work and then asking questions to help players and people understand or to answer questions that they've never even really thought of. And what's really fascinating too is afterward, they'll say, oh, that was amazing. Thank you. And then I'll say, okay, what was your takeaway? And they'll say what their takeaway is and I will remind them just so you know who said that they're like, I did. I said you're absolutely right. I didn't say a word here just to help them realize that you're the one with the answers. You're the one with the experience. And all I provided was a space for you to speak, to think about it out loud to another human being who is not a family member, who is not a coach, who is not tied to your career, but who is in the system.”
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“Because their answers aren't from me, but it's for them. And so rather than me pointing out their blind spots or pointing out what I think they need to do, I've never been a professional athlete. I've never had to manage a major league baseball team. I've never ran a professional sports organization. And so I get to ask really naive questions. But what's also unique about the position that I'm in, these organizations understand, hey, let's give Justin the ability to be able to go around. Let me go sit with the analysts and talk to them about how they build models. I want to go and sit with the athletic trainers and talk to them and see what their environment is like and how to help a player reconstruct their ACL. Hey, let me go sit with the clubhouse staff to see how they design the environment and the music just to nudge certain.”
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“Be able to tug on it and say, Oh, you just said that this stresses you out. Why do you think that stresses you out? What about it stresses you out? Oh, has there ever been a moment you've experienced something similar to this? What did you do there? And if you were to have a tape recording of some of our conversations, you would see a”
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“Steal from Tim Elmore, and I've said it earlier is to build a relationship so strong it could bear the weight of truth. And that's number one, to build a place where players feel safe. I think they understand whoever truly knows me. They know that I'm in a position to provide a safe space for them, to help them realize that they are I'm not going to judge you. I have no say in your bonuses or in your contract or you play or you don't. I want to provide a place for you. Where you have the freedom to speak out loud, you have the freedom to say something out loud and say, you know what? I always thought that, but now hearing me say that, I don't believe that. And for me to say, oh, okay, yeah, that's fine. You're okay. Yeah. And for to let them literally walk through it and walk themselves through this process. And when I hear something,”
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“That's a great question and I don't think I would have been able to answer this question a while ago. And I think the answer to this question kind of dawned on me organically looking back and just taking Take an inventory on all of my different experiences, whether it be working with NFL players or soldiers in the military or major league baseball players. I've had a number of different multiple iterations doing this with different populations who are all high performers. And a common theme that I've seen is that My role or anyone, even a coach's role is.”
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“Fixes to things is trying to Help them just comb out their own process. And I think that's been something that's helped me along the way.”
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“Understand it correctly It's basically a system where which you're not necessarily affecting the outcome, but you're making the system more efficient and faster. The people who I work with are already resilient. But can the tools that they work with or this perspective that they have can help them bounce back faster? They're already really good at refocusing. But does teaching them diaphragmatic breathing in some locus of control strategies can help them bounce back faster? Now, how to measure that? We don't know, but asking them and to hear them from these anecdotal responses, like, hey, that's helping me. And so I'll go by that. But yeah, it's a lot of, I really enjoy it. But to your point, I'm always mindful that don't manipulate people's emotions. Don't make promises that you can't keep. Don't overpromise things and say and table pound. If you do this, it's going to make you mentally tough. There are no five steps. There are no silver bullets. There are no quick.”
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“And that's difficult. And I think one of the best organizations in the world who does this is Google. And I have some friends over at Google and their people analytics department. Okay, how do you quantify that? How do you measure this? And a lot of times it comes down to asking. It comes down to surveys. It comes down to measuring certain behaviors. And sometimes as a result as well is causation and correlation just because a player is meditating that doesn't mean he's going to go out there and hit well. Just because a player is now visualizing and picturing it perfectly, that doesn't mean he's going to go pitch great or have a great game. Doesn't mean she's going to run a great race. And I've learned over time that a lot of what I do is refactoring. Now refactoring is a mental model that I've learned from computer programming. And essentially what refactoring is if I”
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“How do you measure my effectiveness? I'd ask him, I write to his face, how will you measure, how will you know that I'm good at my job? And his answer was interesting. He said, I'll watch how the players and the coaches respond to you when you walk into the clubhouse. And I thought that was intriguing to me. And I said, well, what do you mean? And he goes, that tells me everything I need to know. If they run from you, that tells me what I need to know. If they come up and they approach you, that tells me everything I need to know. Now, I don't want to mistake likability for competence because sometimes people think, oh, he's really good. And the only reason that person is good at what they do is because they're likable. And so I will ask players. I'll say, okay, you like me, but in what ways has this helped you? What are you doing as a result of it? And so another thing that we try to capture as well, or I try to capture, is quantifying the unquantifiable.”
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“What ways are you not exercising it? Here, let me add another one. Nay, try this off. And so a lot of times it's taking the tools they already have and polishing them up and handing them right back to them. And I think that's really beneficial. I asked a general manager of a sport one time early in my career.”
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“Truly respect the experience and the expertise of others. My philosophy is more of guide on the side rather than stage on the stage. The athlete who you I work with, the group I work, they're the heroes. They already have tools. They already have values and tools and strategies that they've used to get where they are. These are some of the best athletes in the world. And so a question I always get is how do you help athletes? What do you say to them? And I come back and say, I don't say anything. What I do is I ask questions. If athlete comes to me and says, hey, how do I tighten up my focus? I immediately come back with a question, how have you tightened up your focus up to this point? Oh, well, I do this, I do this. Oh, okay. Well, have you been doing that? Do you need the change your result? Do you need to change your focus process?”
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“With the circles that I work with, there is rigor that's involved. There are processes. There's complexities. The athletes that I work with, they don't need a motivational speaker. They don't need an inspirational speaker. It comes from within. Another part of this is just naturally I'm an excitable person. Naturally, I have a lot of energy that flows through me. Naturally, from what I have been told, just my personality, I in some circles can be likable. I can be my friendlyness and let's say charisma or whatever it may be can be perceived as, oh, this guy knowed what he's talking about. And there's studies to show that. There's studies show that. Now, it's my job to be a true professional if people are going to get trapped in those biases. And think okay, this person knows what he's talking about.”
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“First of all, I don't know who you asked, and I'm so grateful for them saying what they said. My follow-up question to them would be, how do you know? What evidence do you have? And so that's my initial knee-jerk reaction, to be quite honest. I think to your point, a mental performance coach, when you say that a lot of people say, oh, so your motivational speaker, oh, so you're an inspirational speaker. Oh, so you're a life coach. No offense to any of those things. However,”
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“Minds are primed to look for the answer in the moment. What I have found is when I go back to an athlete at the end of a game or a season and say, so what were you thinking? What was going on there? They have no clue. They didn't even know what they were looking for, to be quite honest. But if you prime them beforehand and say, hey, we're going into this season or you're going into this game. I want you to look for moments where you feel your heart rate really speeding up. And let's talk about it at the end of this series and see if you notice any patterns. Come back, sit down. And now they're looking for it. And so those are just some ideas, some ways that I look about, think about how to shine a light on things that people do unconsciously.”
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“And so, my job as to ask questions to people and say, hey, what are you noticing? What are you noticing with your emotions? What are you noticing with your habits? What are you noticing with your relationships? Not for me to tell them, but for them to look out for it. And a lot of times it's priming them with a question. Sometimes you can ask a person afterward. I was in education for five years and one of the things they teach you in school is the importance of priming. So I can have the class read a sentence or read a paragraph rather. Go read a paragraph and then I'll say, okay, class, what did you learn from that? And what are the kids going to do? They're going to go back and reread the paragraph because they're like, oh, I didn't know what to look for. But if I say, all right, class, we're going to read this paragraph. I want you to look for what you think this character was thinking as this interaction is going on. Now they're looking for it.”
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“Able, whether it be going back and reflecting and saying, What am I learning from this? Or to notice behaviors, you can't change what you're not aware of. So if you stop and say, oh, I keep noticing that I get angry in this situation. Huh, I wonder what's in there. Oh, hey, I noticed that when I'm in this environment, I seem to be the best version of myself. Hmm, I wonder what I can uncover there.”
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“That just explains further how sometimes you don't see the nuances and the intricacies of what's going on in our mind. And so what my job is, or one of my job, what I try to do is to provide an outside view to people, provide an environment where our relationship is so strong it could bear the weight of truth. And they are comfortable enough to share what they're going through, to share their struggles, to share their internal dialogue with me, and not for me to diagnose. I'm not a clinical psychologist, not for me to go back and just give them knowledge and truth and dispense pithy conversation, motivational quotes, but to help them look at their thoughts instead of through their thoughts. And I think if you have someone or something to serve as an awareness mechanism for you to be.”
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“David Foster Wallace. And he tells a story in the beginning of the commencement speech where these fish are swimming along and why is fish comes by and says, hey boys, how's the water? Evan he swims off. And one fish says the other, what the hell is water? And so that is just.”
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“That is so true. And that model that you just described, how your thoughts affect your emotions, your emotions affect your physiology, your physiology affects your performance, and then it loops back around this reinforcing loop is called the thought performance interaction. And this is one of the fundamental things that we discuss when you're working with an athlete or you're working with a team just to understand how this chain works. It's very complicated, very complex, but when you're working with professional athletes in particular, it's got to be simple. It's got to be direct. It's got to be tangible so they could refer back to it fluid for them. Now, to your point, there are a lot of things that are happening unconsciously. And sometimes you don't even notice it. It's hard to change a system when you're part of the system. It's hard to see what needs to be adjusted when you can't tell.”
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“That. Oh, Let me look at that differently. Let me apply evidence against it. Let me consider the fault of my reasoning, the faulty judgment that I might be having. So that's what it means to talk to yourself instead of listen to yourself.”
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“Debate watching the movie in the theater, watching the movie at home, and they go at it. And then I ask the question, okay, who won the debate? And in a room full of highly competitive individuals, they all raised their hand and they laugh at each other. And then I ask, okay, how did you win the debate? What did you do to win? And they say techniques like, I didn't let my opponent talk or I listened to what they said, and then I poked holes in the reasoning, or I applied logic and I provided evidence and data against what they were saying. And then I come with the point. The point is it's interesting how you can sit here and debate a topic like weather and sport and food, but you don't pause to apply those same principles to debate yourself. When you start doubting yourself, a lot of times we say, oh, that is true. I'm not smart. Oh, that is true. I'm never going to accomplish that.”
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“From time to time, depending on what context, depending on what environment you're in. But basically what listening to yourself is, is looking at your thoughts and attaching truth to all of them and saying, yep, that's true, that's true, that's true, as opposed to pausing and debating your thoughts. An example that we do quite often is I'll have a room full of people. Let's say it's a team. And I will tell every player to pick a teammate. Okay, this is your teammate. And what you're going to do is you are going to do something that you do all the time. And this is something that is found in locker rooms around the world debates. People will debate best food. They will debate best movies. They'll debate who's better, what sports are the best and they're really good at it. And so what I have them do, I say, okay, you're going to debate. And I give them the topics. You're going to debate hot weather versus cold weather and you hear them go at it.”
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“Yeah, I think what happens to a lot of us is as humans we have this constant chatter going in our minds, constantly thinking, constantly ruminating. It's just we're getting inputs from our own thoughts, from our interpretations, from what we're reading, from what we think other people are thinking. And it's easy to get caught into these traps, to get caught into believing some of these biases that we have, believing some of these thoughts. And we'll take these thoughts. And these thoughts are closely coupled and tied to our emotions, and our emotions will ultimately impact our body and our physiology, which will ultimately impact our behaviors. And so as humans, we need to learn how to look at our thoughts and to develop a relationship with them, understand what is signal and what is noise. And it will change.”
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“How do you operationalize that? It's the application of mental models. It's the application of decision sciences and some concepts in behavioral science and some concepts in performance psychology and some mental models from physics or chemistry, whatever it may be to help people essentially become better decision makers and also to streamline their mental process how do they approach a game? How do they approach failure? How do they approach success? And so I'm involved in a lot of those different types of conversation both in the micro with an individual person and then talking with a coach or a leader of an organization to try to create an environment where you help people do that for themselves. And so that's kind of my best definition of it right now. My current working definition.”
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“Explain mental performance is to look at physical performance. Like you said, you're 100% right. And I think a very simple and in some circles, an oversimplifying physical performance is the activation of motor skills to achieve a task. Now, if we look at mental performance, it's the activation of mental skills to achieve a task. And then the second question is, okay, so what are mental skills? Now, mental skills are what your guests speak about on this podcast all the time. It's what knowledge workers learn. It's your ability to zoom in and to zoom out to gain better perspective, your ability to conduct pre-mortem, your ability to deploy gratitude in a difficult situation. It's your ability to talk to yourself instead of listen to yourself. And so my job is helping individuals and organizations or teams.”
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“That's such a great question, and depending on who I talk to, I will change my answer or articulate it in a different way, I think just for the sake of this podcast. I have, I could explore a little bit more and explain a little bit deeper. I think it's a very convoluted term sometimes. You have these buzzwords, high performance, mental performance, mental skills. And I think one of the best ways to”
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“Because losing is so painful, is so embarrassing, 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. But when you win, a lot of times you think, all right, yeah, that was supposed to happen. Okay, moving on. Instead of pausing and saying, what did I execute? What was out of my control? Where did I get lucky? Another question is, what did I learn today? Win or lose? That's a great question to ask yourself.”
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