062: How to Build Confidence and Fall In Love with The Game
The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance
Paul Fabritz
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🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How do we get kids to fall in love with the game? |
| 0:04.2 | I think coaches should start every season with a questionnaire. |
| 0:07.2 | How much do you love the game on a scale of 1 to 10? |
| 0:10.7 | And then again, at the end of the year, do another questionnaire. |
| 0:13.8 | Again, ask, how much do you love the game on a scale of 1 to 10? |
| 0:17.2 | If my players are losing love for the game under my watch, I'm doing it wrong. |
| 0:23.1 | You're listening to the PJF podcast, a show dedicated to decoding elite sports performance |
| 0:28.5 | and fitness. I'm Paul Fabrice, and I'm an NBA Strength and Conditioning and Performance |
| 0:33.4 | Trainer. If you want to become superhuman, take your fitness and take your sports performance to the next level. This is the podcast for you. Let's do it. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the PJF podcast. Today, I'm taking a question about how do we get kids to fall in love with the game. So a couple |
| 0:58.4 | episodes back, I talked about how this is the difference maker between NBA stars that I've |
| 1:04.5 | been around and the guys who are like super talented but barely hanging in there, not producing |
| 1:10.6 | at the NBA level or maybe even worse |
| 1:13.5 | they already gave up they burned out um they lost love for the game and in the episode i was talking |
| 1:19.7 | about how um you could force yourself to put in a certain amount of work even if you don't love it |
| 1:26.7 | um but you lose the spark and that spark |
| 1:30.8 | is the prerequisite to flow state so for you to really go out and consistently reach flow state |
| 1:39.9 | you see guys having fun think about step curry he looks like he's loose relaxed having fun he loves |
| 1:45.7 | the game he loves being out there when you no longer love the game you're no longer having fun with |
| 1:50.8 | it you lose that spark and when you lose that spark you ruin that whole neurochemical cocktail |
| 1:55.8 | of the right amount of serotonin the right amount of dopamine the right amount of adrenaline the right amount of dopamine, the right amount of adrenaline, the right |
| 2:01.8 | amount of these stress hormones. All of these things, we call it this cocktail. They all got to be |
| 2:07.2 | at certain levels. Once you lose love for the game, those levels are no longer there. And then |
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