Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

My name is Ben. Welcome back to another fantastic off season episodes. I love the off season.

There's no basketball. We can talk about whatever we want, whenever we want. And today in that spirit another new guest on the program but someone

who has written books not just one book multiple books which he'll tell us about in a second, in a space that is near and dear to my heart and related to many things we've talked about in prior episodes on this show from the Playmakers Advantage and 80% mental consulting.

Am I getting that right off the top of my head? Dan Peterson.

Hey Ben, how's it going? Yeah that sounds great and that's really just a shadow front that I put up there for an email address but but yeah that's the name of the name of the

first book and then the second book coming out last year.

So tell people really quickly sort of about your background and you know we were talking right before recording you have the

first book and then that kind of evolved into a second book and we'll use that to

seed our conversation today about skills and athleticism and neurological development and all the fun stuff that you want to get into.

Awesome. Yeah, so first of all I have to start making all of my disclaimers and apologies to your audience because I know your

audience knows basketball very well I know you know basketball very well you obviously

have a

background in cognitive science. I have none of those. I have no PhD. I have a fan's interest in basketball but not to the depth that that you go.

I enjoy all sports. My wife and I raise three sons. They're all

grown but they played every sport you can imagine. So I am a sports dad. That's

my claim to fame. My day job I am involved in the

neuroscience world I'm a project manager for a neuroscience technology company and

we're involved in clinical trials for neurodegenerative diseases etc.

So I do involve the brain in my in my daytime job.

But watching my boys grow up when they were younger and I'd go out and you know everything

from coaching the little U-8 soccer team or the basketball team and I know a lot of your audience

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