71 Going Pro - Adopting Components of Elite Behavior
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
No doubt, you listen to this podcast because you are a high-performer in all areas of your life. Some of you may even be seeking the highest level of performance as a triathlete…You want to go pro.
Remember, there is a critical divergence between performance at a high-level and going pro. As a time-starved athlete, your mission is to integrate sport into your big life and around the important non-negotiables of work and family commitments.
A professional athlete, however, must be selfish and unapologetic around their quest for performance. To put it another way, they integrate life around their sport.
The journey of a pro is hard…very hard, but there are key takeaways for all of us here. You don’t have to be a pro athlete to embrace pro habits and characteristics into your daily life. The heart of this episode is built upon personal growth and development.
By adopting the characteristics and behaviors of a pro into your life, you set yourself up for long-term progression, improvement, and resilience. You become willing to receive feedback and adapt to an ever-changing landscape, and you embrace habits and traits around a value system that ultimately makes you indispensable.
What could be more PRO than that?
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Key components of elite behavior
- What it means to be a pro in both sport and life
- Quick tips to become a professional triathlete
- How you can develop from a good coach to a great coach
- How can you become a pro team member
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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 in a great sport into life. |
| 0:20.2 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:26.5 | And what? |
| 0:27.8 | Time and time again, we hear about these phrases, the journey, the process. |
| 0:33.7 | Oh, sorry, Americans, the process. |
| 0:36.7 | Long-term development, progression to world class. |
| 0:41.5 | What do they say? |
| 0:42.9 | Every overnight success is 10 years in the making. |
| 0:47.1 | Well, conceptually, that concept's great. |
| 0:49.5 | Intellectually and logically, most of us can buy into it. |
| 0:53.9 | But what about if you're seeking to become whether the best in the world? |
| 0:59.1 | The transition from a hobby to a central driver of your life. |
| 1:04.0 | What about if you want to go pro? |
| 1:07.4 | A common title chased by so many aspiring young athletes. |
| 1:12.0 | Today, we investigate the path to pro, particularly in triathlon. |
| 1:17.3 | We talk about case studies from those who are left on the trash heap of failed dreams |
| 1:21.4 | and balance it with those who, in my mind, have done it very, very well. |
| 1:26.9 | Not going pro, this show not for you. Think again, because when we finish with some who, in my mind, have done it very, very well. Not going pro, this show not for you. |
| 1:29.2 | Think again. |
| 1:30.2 | Because when we finish with some thoughts on the right way to go pro, |
| 1:33.9 | we're going to start to apply it to developing coaches |
| 1:36.5 | and even those who are looking to thrive in the corporate space. |
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