#64 More Than Medicine (1 of 3). Cultivating an Elite Performance Mindset with Sports Psychologist Tom Bates
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Tom Bates, a performance psychologist who applies fast, easy and accessible performance enhancing techniques to elite sports men and women based on the Science of Psychology.
His work has extended into other sports beyond premiership football including GB athletes in Basketball, Swimming, Boxing, Rugby, Golf and Fencing and is working toward Tokyo 2021.
Our conversation today spans a multitude of topics including
- How to harness better Self-Awareness
- How changing your Perception of the environment will drastically change your experience of it
- Realising you are in total control of your emotions enables you to be bulletproof from insecurity and negative energy
- How to nurture an Authentic self
Even though Tom has worked with highly motivated people his whole life who are looking for that extra 1-5% of better performance, his work and learnings are relevant to all of us and I think if you think of yourself struggling with any aspect of behavior, health or habit change, you will definitely enjoy this pod
We also talk about using:
- Visualisation exercises
- The Law of Attraction
Which are two things I strongly believe in and touch upon at the end of the podcast episode.
And do check out Tom's book - the Future Coach - which I'm sure you'll find super interesting too.
You'll find full show notes along with other guest information including social media links on the podcast section of The Doctor's Kitchen website
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| 0:00.0 | So when we scratch beneath the surface of the and delving into the biographical histories |
| 0:12.4 | of the most successful, in quote successful, you know, people in business and music and |
| 0:18.0 | sport and art, we tend to find constant every day battle, you know, between building |
| 0:27.3 | confidence and responding and coping to the setbacks that we experience. But you know, |
| 0:33.9 | it's the response that we adopt, it's the mindset that we adopt to how we choose to respond |
| 0:40.9 | to the setbacks, which defines and separates actually some of the most talented sportsmen and women, |
| 0:47.6 | but also most successful and determined sportsmen and women that have been privileged to work. |
| 0:54.2 | Welcome to the Docks of Skitchen podcast, the show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to |
| 1:02.4 | improve your health today. My name is Dr. Rupi, I'm a medical doctor, I also study nutrition and |
| 1:09.5 | I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me on this podcast |
| 1:16.2 | where we explore multiple determinants of what allows you to live your best life. And remember, |
| 1:23.2 | you can sign up to thedockskitchen.com for the newsletter where we give weekly recipes plus |
| 1:29.8 | tips and hacks on how to improve your lifestyle today. My guest is Tom Bates, he's a performance |
| 1:37.1 | psychologist and a UEFA A license coach who's been practicing for 15 years in creating an |
| 1:43.3 | applying fast, easy and accessible performance enhancing techniques to elite sportsmen and |
| 1:50.4 | based on the science of psychology. His work has extended into other professional sports as well |
| 1:56.4 | and works with GB athletes like basketball and swimming. He's also due to work with athletes in |
| 2:02.2 | the postponed 2021 Olympics too. His work has also extended into psychology across business and |
| 2:10.0 | health care and he uses exercises that are designed to stimulate and inspire thought provoking |
| 2:16.1 | leadership skills through focusing exclusively on the management of self. He's currently in the |
| 2:21.8 | final year of his professional doctorate and is engaged in the study inquiring into the nature of |
| 2:28.3 | human potential and the causal variables associated with elite sporting performance. IE, |
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