23 Lars Tandrup -Using an Athletic Mindset to Overcome Trauma
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you’ve lost everything? How do you start to rebuild? This conversation with new Purple Patch athlete, Lars Tandrup, is a story about performance and emerging from tragedy. It’s not about race performance, per se, but a lesson of how stress and adversity can be a catalyst for human growth, development and adaptation.
Last year, Lars and his wife lost everything in the wildfires of Santa Rosa, forcing him to shift his lens on what is truly important in life. He focused on not falling into a victim mentality, but instead, to separate his reactions from the emotions he was feeling.
The result? An overwhelming sense of gratitude enveloped him and a new opportunity to grow and develop emerged. “It’s when we struggle that there’s an opportunity to find clarity and solutions,” he says.
What has he learned?
Life is about meaningful relationships and being of service to others.
It’s also about defining what truly matters in your growth and happiness and, as he says,“We have been given the gift and opportunity to rebuild our life and that’s an interesting and liberating experience. A burden has been lifted.”
An athletic mindset really can help you emerge from life's worst tragedies and Lars is proof positive that mindset is everything.
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, |
| 0:11.5 | you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere |
| 0:17.3 | integrate sport into life. Welcome once again to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | This is your host, Matt Dixon, and I start today with a question. |
| 0:27.0 | Have you ever pondered what it is like to lose everything? |
| 0:31.3 | I mean completely everything. |
| 0:34.3 | Going through an experience that leaves you on the edge of life, but ultimately you emerge out of it. |
| 0:39.3 | Absolutely no possessions, stripped to quite literally your pajamas. |
| 0:45.3 | What would happen as you emerge out of this experience? |
| 0:48.3 | What would be your mindset, the lens on performance? |
| 0:52.3 | This forced opportunity to completely reinvent yourself and start |
| 0:57.2 | all over again. For Lars Tandrup, this was his story. And today, we're going to go through |
| 1:03.6 | his quite staggering story and dive into his emergence into personal performance and growth. |
| 1:09.8 | This is, and I promise, not like words, this is unmissable. |
| 1:15.6 | I might say it's required listening. |
| 1:18.8 | But before we do so, let's get into Word of the Week. |
| 1:21.6 | We like the way he thinks, serious with a wink. |
| 1:26.0 | Let's open the book. It's time to take a wink. Let's open the book. |
| 1:28.1 | It's time to take a peek. |
| 1:30.8 | It's the Dixenary Word of the Week. |
| 1:35.6 | So yes, the word of the week this week is talent. |
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