159 Am I Too Obsessed?
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Obsession.
It isn't an easy topic, but it's an important one and Matt explores this fine line between a healthy commitment to performance vs. an unhealthy obsession in today's episode that sets the backdrop of future episodes.
Remember, the pursuit and excellence in your sporting goals aren't the only measures of success. We define success as nailing that part, but by pursuing these goals, you also improve your health, increase your effectiveness at work, and are equipped to show up to friends and family as the best version of yourself possible.
So, to lead listeners in the subject, Matt focuses the discussion around four key phrases:
* Performance within Context
* Embrace the Journey
* Nail the Basics
* No One Gives a Sh*t
Using these four sayings as a guide and framework, we believe you can stabilize your relationship with the pursuit of excellence, and still become the best version of yourself within the context of life.
The four key sayings also endorse a high work ethic, great commitment, and the requirement to do a lot of things right, but they can also guard against falling into a paralyzing mindset that shackles growth and performance within the context of your life.
This is what success is: It is NOT pursuing your sporting goals at the cost of health, relationships, and effectiveness across life’s commitments. It is the reverse. This mindset defines the ability to frame every single element of sport and performance and keep you from crossing the barrier onto the slippery and dangerous slope of obsession.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:19.7 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon, |
| 0:24.6 | joining you from the Purple Patch Center in San Francisco, and folks, we appreciate you. |
| 0:31.6 | And I hope that it's mutual. |
| 0:34.6 | In fact, why don't you show us that it is? |
| 0:36.6 | Please subscribe, tell your friends about the show, |
| 0:40.2 | even leave a nice comment or two in the review section of where you listen to your podcasts. You see, |
| 0:45.7 | it helps others find the show, and it also makes me happy. And when I'm happy, I smile. You want to |
| 0:53.0 | make me smile, don't you? |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay. |
| 0:58.0 | Are you sitting comfortably? |
| 1:01.0 | Good. |
| 1:02.0 | Then we shall begin. |
| 1:04.0 | Four sayings, purple patch sayings, unifying phrases that act to define a mindset and an approach that fosters |
| 1:15.6 | your commitment to performance, but also helps you remain a step away from the negative effects of what we might label obsession. |
| 1:25.6 | Over the coming months, we are going to drive a lot of our education and mindset around |
| 1:31.5 | the uncomfortable topics related to obsession. |
| 1:35.0 | Mental health, orthorexia and other related illnesses, coaching as it relates to obsession, |
| 1:40.6 | and other topics that can help you find a path of success without succumbing to |
| 1:47.4 | some of the potentially negative outcomes of high, high dedication. Now, this isn't an easy |
| 1:53.5 | topic, but it is important. And today, we're going to begin our journey. Periodically, |
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