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Paul Rabil

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“Man, that's really difficult. It's like writing your own obituary. I think that the one word comes to mind, it's impact and impact fill in the blank, but I hope to have an impact on the next generation impact on the current, I don't want to call it current generation, I just want to call it impact on people that I know, and people that I share an experience with. That to me is at the highest level what we're hoping to do. In business, relationships, interactions of all sorts.”
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“The future of our business right now. I'm really optimistic about where the PLL is going and the people that we have here, the talent. It's not just in the workforce, but on the field. It's what I spend most of my time thinking about is our business that we're building.”
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“Literally, you should have stopped at 4 a.m. Like, I did it this morning, I did the morning. Like, I can count on waking up at 4 a.m. almost every day. And I think it's for different reasons, but in different moments right now, a lot is going on in my life because I've retired bicoastal in a big moment for our business in transitioning from year three to four. So I'm having trouble staying asleep, but going to sleep, again, has never been an issue luckily.”
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“Yeah, the only thing you have to be careful of is meetings running long, and then all of a sudden you're missing others. I was there during COVID. I would take most of my meetings walking with headphones in. And then I found out I was bumping up against other meetings. So I had to be more thoughtful.”
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“Reactivates your biochemistry and your body, it begins to release endorphins, which helps shift some of that mindset. Some of the most stimulating, and I think breakthrough thoughts that Mike and I have are on hikes.”
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“Has that same thought that we do, and then it becomes reality. So DBT will give tactics to stepping out of it. One of them is changing your body temperature. So like putting your hand in the freezer or like having an ice pack and just cooling off your head, taking a walk and meditating, things like that.”
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“So similar to schools that specialize in educating children with learning differences, I think that certain therapy that is focused on working with certain people on the DSM call it, it's actually like really good therapy for anyone. So example is dialectical behavioral therapy. It's called DBT. It is a process often worked through with people with personality disorders, but it's very tactical because people with personality disorders are often dealing with disassociation. But the difference between personality disorder and someone who doesn't, at least from a prescription standpoint, non-medical is the same thoughts. We just are able to step away from it. That critical inner voice I was just mentioning. Someone who experiences dissociation.”
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“I'll stick with time and space. Usually like the three to five o'clock range in the afternoon because I never get everything done in a day, never. And I think that's just, that's okay. It's called entrepreneurship. And at this stage of my life, I'm really trying to explore relationships more and the enjoyment of life more, which conflicts with ADR work weeks. that like bottleneck is that 3 to 5 p.m. range because I don't stop work at 5, but like you start thinking, all right, if I need to get out of here by six or seven, I've got to start jamming now. And then looking at a calendar from time to time where there's 12 or 13 meetings in a day, then you're like, fuck, this is going to be a stressful one.”
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“I'm fearfully motivated on the field. I think fear kicks in in a lot of other aspects of life. I feel that it is more unhealthy than motivating. I'm not afraid of anything at the moment. What I've spent seven years in therapy, I do weekly therapy. I think that I have the mammoths on my shoulders that we all do, critical negative self-talk, et cetera. What therapy does is just kind of like dissipate. Lot of that or lower the volume and gives you perspective that those mammoths never go away, the goal is to actually just shrink them in size. And that, I think, helps with fear of one thing or another.”
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“Maybe I'll come back is a challenge to the status quo, like, why in sports, if you want to take a break, do you have to end it all? Well, it's just because it is a commoditized business. Athletes are a commoditized. However, it just doesn't need to be that way. Gronkowski needed two and a half seasons to heal and now he's playing great again. And I'm not for the record. I'm not planning to come out of retirement, but I do think the systems arcane. And it's worth talking about. So I'm constantly, and I think it's because of the way that my brain functions, constantly challenging status quo.”
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“Yeah, oh no doubt. So I grew up with learning differences and I believe that my learning differences ended up being a gift because the way that I've had to learn in a traditional education model, which is very linear, was almost through R&D and course of action. And in some cases a history lesson helped me retain the information. And so schools that specialize in educating children with learning differences, whether it's somewhere on the spectrum to dyslexia, to ADHD, to on-to-processing disorder, I think they actually get it right. And it's led to a very entrepreneurial environment for me where I actually love to problem solve and I like to question the status quo. Even like the quick snare at like, I retired and”
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“Pretty regularly, actually. I struggle with ADHD in today's technological world, there are things happening to me, not just in my own head, but around me with hardware that distracts me. It's a big challenge of mine is being present. And then the flip side embracing some of the benefits of the way that my mind tends to work, which shoots off in sometimes a dozen directions at the same time, helps me solve for problems that I think are multidimensional or abstract. So it's, again, that balance of what got me here is also making me feel this way. And so let me use the strengths and also acknowledge the weaknesses and care for those and help cure those.”
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“That's right. It's the reset, the start of a day, sleep is really important in that regard. And it doesn't happen every morning because there's sometimes where you wake up with your head on fire with a bunch of stuff to do. But in those moments where you do have time and space and using it wisely, that's where I have the most inner piece.”
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“Morning, I think, before the day starts. And then sometimes mid morning after the day has started and I get a break, that's probably like the time where I feel the most inner piece.”
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“Talking this out is dealing with the lows and knowing that there's always going to be the other side of it if you continue to persevere.”
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“Well, it means that like happiness, there isn't a moment or a time in your life where a place to be where you'll feel more balanced than you do now. I think the perspective, at least that I subscribe to around balance and happiness, it's more of the frequency of those moments, small moments, that get you feeling whole and the intensity of one. You win a championship. It's amazing, but it's just actually just not as great as it's led up to be. And most athletes and coaches like a day or a week later, like, okay, on to the next one. So it's a frequency of moments of happiness, a frequency of moments of feeling balance and secure and frequency, meaning that there are a lot of moments where there isn't. But if you can get more than half, then that's a good place to be. So I think where I struggle with the most probably just.”
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“Lot. I struggle every day. So there's not one thing I can think about. The first word that came to mind was balance. And I've thought a lot about it. I spent a lot of time around balance.”
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“And I think Western culture gets it wrong in sports for that reason. I grew up in a system where best player was captain. And we should think critically around who is best to be captain, where you're leading the team, you're empathizing with the team, you're bridging the comms from the coaches to the teams, in some cases teams to coach to GM. And that requires a lot of time and a lot of individual and group conversation. time must not be discounted because time is at a premium when it comes to pro sports and individual performance and all the stuff we just talked about it's it's a really important question because your team's success relies on your choice for captain”
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“Is payla, for example, that never had or was never given the responsibility to Captain Brazil because they always viewed it as like, why give him that extra responsibility when he's got enough pressure? He's got to score three goals a game. Let's get out of his way. Let's get out of his way.”
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“Well, the person you should interview who's best suited for this is Sam Walker, who wrote the captain's class. And he's studied the best teams and dynasties in the world. And he'll tell you that the best captains are most responsible for the success of dynasties and the best teams in professional sports history around the globe. So he ran this study around the best teams ever, most championships, dynasties in eras across sport, across gender. And he came down to like 10 teams. And he found something he wasn't looking for, which was a singular captain across each of those teams that was a water bottle carrier, which was often not the person responsible for top performance.”
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“Whether it's the head coach, assistant coaches, your executive team down and building a really strong culture so that you celebrate individual performance, but individuals widely recognize that their success contributes to the companies or the teams.”
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“And then it's distracting that the overarching goal of the team, which is winning. I think the Patriots do a really good job of building incentives around starting and playing in games. And they don't incentivize based off of number of catches or touchdowns or yards passed. So you can still build an incentive structure to performance, which is kind of the business behind the scenes and what agents are going to want to push for. As an athlete being represented by management, like you want them to create best in class terms in your contract. And then you walk away and you go, well, these might be at odds with the team. So that's just pro sports. And frankly, there's that in business too. Sales figures within your BD org are incentivized and you want the entire sales team to collaborate and share on deals and share contacts and so on and so forth. So that's where like good managers and good leadership comes in.”
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“It's a huge dilemma in sports, and teams and ownership groups do it differently, but I totally see the paradox of incentivizing wide receivers based on number of catches and touchdowns scored and then trying to address the sideline issues of the quarterback.”
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“I really wanted to skew toward the former as much as possible. And that was binary for me because in sport you can block out everything else in life. And so it's like a breeding ground for that type of motivation. So that's where I think it's a combination of having supreme work ethic bestowed upon me from my family heritage, blessed with strong athletic genes. And I celebrate the notion that I have performed beyond my probably like my projected capabilities. You know, when my younger self may have taken offense to it, like what does that mean? I'm not as good of an athlete as I think I am. But I think that we should all feel good about our lives if we out kick our coverage or punch above our weight glass.”
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“I think it's probably a combination of like the Rabel family tree coming over from Lebanon as immigrants. The work ethic of my great grandparents, my grandparents, and to my father that was demonstrated to me as a kid all the way through to today, the fear-based motivation really began to trigger for me in that high school kind of phase two that I had mentioned. And so I think it began to form as I started tasting success because success was so good and failure was so bad that I”
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“Economic disparity from athlete to athlete. Again, like all things that differ from one person to the next. And then I think there's gene pool as well, whether you're a descendant from a conqueror or an emperor like Genghis Khan or not. That's a crazy theory, but I think that conquering spirit performs quite well in sport.”
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“I don't think that it comes from anger because I think operating with anger isn't the best path. And if you look at best in class in theory operating from anger, I have a hard time thinking that that was the source. I do think that mentally elevating doubt and fear is probably the better way to describe how these top athletes think their fear motivated, fear of not being the best, fear of losing, and fear of not performing well. It's a huge motivator. And so I think that that's probably it versus anger. And I think that that can come from a number of things. It comes from the way that we're raised, product of our environment.”
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“Everything that's happened up to that point. So you can just put the ball in the hoop from close range, which you tend to be really good at if you're at the MBA level.”
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“Yeah, but the other thing is step one is that awareness. Step two is then adjusting the neuroscience. And that's where athletes really struggle. It's like, I know you can almost zoom out, Dick. I know what's happening to me right now. I'm losing confidence because I made two bad plays in a row. And I know that I can turn this around, but I have this feeling in my body. I'm running hot and I'm ruminating and I can't get out of it. That's like real biochemical takeover. There's science behind that. So there are also techniques that you can do, breathing, you know, actually getting an ice towel on your neck to like shift the chemistry that's happening in your body. Your body actually is getting hot when you're getting angry. And I found that those tactics actually resemble a lot of in basketball when you get on the free throw line. You go through your routine. That is meditative. It's a reset for.”
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“Your suggestion. So creating in team sports a lot more difficult than golf because of what Kind of just said in team sports there's more people on the field and there's more actions and reactions that are out of your control. So I always focused on what are my rebound opportunities off of a bad play that are within my control. And it's like a lot of it was like effort getting back on defense. Like I took a bad shot or turned the ball over. I would stay on the field to try to like get that mental rep b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b where a lot of people make a bad shot or turnover and they run off the field and they sub out so not knowing that i can't count on the ball will be back on my stick again can i go stay on the field and play defense against the guy who does have the ball on his stick and build that confidence back up that's a rebound goal”
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“To do that in a 60 minute game is a lot more difficult. It requires, I think, a high level of mental aptitude and mental training. So I'll give you one example. It's called a rebound goal. I think golf gets it right because golf is a really challenging sport. And that's the genesis of rebound goals. An example of a rebound goal in golf is an up and down, where like literally Phil Michelson has made tens of, if not hundreds of millions of dollars being famous for hitting miraculous shots, which by the way, it's a miraculous shot because he had a shitty T-shot. But they celebrate and up and down. And that's a rebound goal because it's coming off of a bad shot. In most sports, if you have a bad shot, what do you think the next shot is going to be? Bad again, bad again, bad again. And that's what we're trying to fix.”
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“I think every athlete will tell you it's easier said than done, but it is the key to success and consistency over time is your ability to have resilience in a game. I think what makes sports great is that you can have a poor game and then use the weak to recalibrate. So you go back and you practice and then you get the benefit of time, which time is a healing mechanism.”
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“But in sport, things are very personal. And I think that, in a way, drives that outcome that we see with a lot of athletes.”
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“We'll continue with Michael Jordan famously cut from the varsity team. He was a sophomore. That's not the part of the story they told. In a time where no sophomore has made varsity. But the story is like, oh, he was cut from the basketball team. Well, we played JV and he was the best player in JV. But he had the audacity to try out for the varsity team, then get cut, take it personally, and come back way better than had he made the varsity team his sophomore year. So in hindsight, it's actually those high risk, the volume of risk taking met by the resilience and the ability to like get up and be better because of that failure. A lot of great athletes take it personally. And those are things that you also have to shed when you get out of sport and into life and business is take things less personally.”
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“Yes, that's right. And the ability to persevere through failure, I think there's a misconception out there that successful people have faced fewer obstacles than most. Quite the opposite. I think what makes successful people or successful athletes, I'll just use that as an example is they Have failed in many cases more than most people because they've had the audacity to try things that are out of their wheelhouse more regularly. They have high risk.”
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“Results on the field. So, you know, I see people trying to convince others that they are convinced themselves, but it's a holistic approach. And then irrational belief. Because a lot of times I wasn't, probably very few times I was. But if I didn't buy into that belief, then I wouldn't have continued to improve like I did.”
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“Oh, yeah, because you're constantly A being. You're constantly judging other people and looking at their stats versus yours. And it's like unhealthy because that wasn't the best path to continued growth personally, which is what I was describing earlier. But that was just there because I was a competitive asshole. And so the tricky part about sports is the balance of confidence versus cockiness versus hints of narcissism around I am the best and I'm the best because I just believe I'm the best or I'm telling you I'm the best like it's highly subjective. You can't get there without like fully buying into that and you can't fully buy into that without really putting in all the work that you can and having”
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“That's a great question. So, the truth is that I didn't, but I always felt threatened by that. And I was always comparing myself to others. And that was the bad side of it.”
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“Best way to unpack it is with counsel, whether that's for athletes in sports psychology and therapy and couples therapy. I think that in sports, it's a great place to analyze how we improve no one bats an eye at having a shooting coach, a head coach, an assistant coach, a strength coach, a medical team, doctors, physios, physical therapists, trainers. They're all there to help. because they're experts. Why not tap into if we want to improve our mental health experts in that field? Well, it's been stereotyped and stigmatized through modern media and slower turn advancements as to why. But I think we're close to breaking through that obstacle.”
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“Well, taking care of your mind starts with taking care of your body because your body will let your mind down as an athlete. And I think that's probably the case for anyone, really. So there's tactics, tangible steps that will help your mentals by eating well, sleeping well, staying hydrated. That's one. Number two is really understanding why the way you are. And in particular, I find it very relational. Like what makes you happy? What makes you sad? What makes you agitated? What gives you your anxiety and stress? And understanding whether that's attachment theory, whether that is the way that, you know, you have overlapped your career with your life and what are the upside and downsides there. The way to unpack it.”
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“Improvement on skill is really thin. And in fact, you're able to tap into skill better if you're smarter that you weren't able to utilize. You didn't even know you had, so to speak. But to be able to play well in your career, you just have to carry your body and your mind in season and offseason. Always omnipresent there.”
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“Coming out of the pandemic and building the bubble and playing, and that was difficult as well. But I felt like it was time to really centralize my efforts and drive lacrosse forward. So it turns out I had one of my best seasons as a 35-year-old playing injured. And that's, I think, largely because I knew and I was the only one who knew that I was emptying out the tank every weekend. But to sustain a career into your 30s, even into your 20s as a hard-charging professional athlete that's in a contact sport, you always have to take care of your body. Sleep, number one, hydrate. Number two, eat number three. Stay on your workouts. Number four, stay on your skill. Number four, 4.2. And the reason I say that is like, you know, as you get in your late 20s and 30s, the margin for”
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“Well, I just retired after the season. Yeah, I had a really good season and actually didn't make it difficult to retire for me because I had made that decision at least personally in advance of the season.”
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“That's when I started getting injured. And I think what happened is sustainably you can only be that competitive in a contact sport the way that I played for so long without finally breaking down. And the breaking down was my body and then my mind because of my body. That's when I got in, had surgeries, got into sports psychology, got into therapy. And then the back portion of my career call it 31 to 35 has been more reflective and more appreciative. I've had to recharge that compete level at moments, but I could also shut it off. And I could also play for fun and shut that off too. And so you think about athletes when they're at their best as maybe the ability to have an overarching approach that is within their control.”
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“It was creative at first, and then it became very regimented. The way that I think about my career is actually in three phases, I started playing the game when I was 12. And all the way up until my sophomore year in high school, I was playing because I had a passion for it. It was fun. I loved it. The fun and the love didn't go away, got superseded by competitiveness. In my sophomore year, I started getting like a lot of eyeballs and recruits, recruiting letters and stuff. And so then I started really like regimenting, gamifying in many cases, doing whatever I could, timing, counting everything that I did. And that was both tiresome, but it was also, in my opinion, the fastest path to high growth improvement. And that lasted really all the way until I was about 28 to 30 in that range.”
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“Dubovers all at once. First time they ever did that. So they eliminated the language barrier. It became a universal title overnight. What are the lessons in sports? And so that's what I mean. Whether I was playing, I was like watching Chris Paul make a pass with his weak hand off balance. What's that lesson him across? How can I emulate that? So it wasn't just what I was doing on the field. It was what I was doing really in everything in life.”
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“I mean, I think that's relative, or I shouldn't say it's relative, but mostly subjective. I believe that I was. And there were probably guys that thought that they worked harder than me, but they maybe only thought of it linearly. They worked harder than me in the weight room and worked harder than me maybe on the field. Why I think that my meter was always full is I never stopped thinking about it. And even to this day, I think what helps drive our business is that Mike and I think about it all the time. And it's a blessing and a curse. But I'll be watching Squid Game and thinking about how Squid Game became the most popular title on Netflix. I immediately started thinking about the business and I'm reading about it and seeing the simultaneous release in 190 countries in 31 different closed captions and 13 different.”
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“That process to me unfolded organically, if that makes any sense. Because I do see kids that say, I want to be the best in the world, or I want to be the best player in high school. And they're not even close to being the best player on their midfield line yet. So I stacked them, I think, appropriately. It's not that I ignored or I never put a goal that I wanted to be the greatest player ever. I did. But I focused on how to get there versus just saying I want to be there.”
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“The unknown for me at the time, at the trick in a way, is that I never. Never focused on getting too far ahead of where I was at the time. And the time for me and the lessons in sport are really meditative. It's being present and completing the task at hand to the best of your ability. So whether that was like every day against the wall, shooting on net, I would have this approach that I wouldn't stop until I felt like I got as close to perfect as possible. And so it wasn't like timed. It wasn't number of reps. It was just out there because I wanted to be great. And then when I was playing, whether it's high school college professionally internationally, I always wanted to be the best version of myself and then the best version on that team and then the best player on the field, which then quickly became best in the world or best in college or best in high school. So it was like.”
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“Well, based on my standard of Michael Jordan, I did not achieve that. I've lost championships and I certainly wasn't the player that he was relative to his sport.”
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