Cassidy Lichtman, U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Cassidy Lichtman, a former member of the United States women’s national volleyball team.

At the age of nine, Cassidy developed a chronic pain disorder in one of her legs and was told that she might never walk again.

Imagine waking up one day with pain. Pain you didn’t understand. Pain that had no cure, no matter how many doctors you visited.

On one side of the spectrum there is the physical pain.

Over a short period of time, that is usually more manageable.

Observe it, notice it, choose not to respond to it and focus on something else.

But what about when you have to wake up with it again the next day and the next day and the day after that.

Therein lies the mental pain.

How would you respond when it feels like you’ve lost control over everything that once seemed to be such a certainty?

Cassidy is a fighter and has persevered her whole life.

Despite unsuccessful efforts to treat the pain she re-learned how to walk and then began playing volleyball. She went on to be a two-time All-American for Stanford and spent five years competing with the United States National Team.

In this conversation, Cassidy shares her experiences overcoming this pain, making the best of the opportunities given to her, and choosing to live her life doing what she loves, not letting her life be dictated by her suffering.

There is so much to learn from Cassidy. She has an incredible spirit, she has perspective on what matters most, and she’s competed at the highest level of her sport.

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0:00.0	I don't know that there was a moment but I remember the realization coming that as we went
0:08.4	into these doctor's offices and we checked off treatment after treatment.
0:13.0	I understood that we were getting to the end of the list
0:17.0	and that they, I don't know if someone said it,
0:20.0	but there was a very clear understanding that, for me at least, that they didn't think I was going to be welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervais. And the whole idea behind setting up this podcast is to sit down with people who are on the path of mastery
0:46.7	to better understand what they're searching for like to really dig and get underneath the surface what What they're craving for, what they're
0:54.4	hungry for, what they're driven by, what they're driven toward. We want to
0:58.2	understand their psychological framework, which is how they make sense of the world
1:01.6	and themselves and events in it.
1:03.5	And we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they've used
1:06.8	to build and refine their craft.
1:08.0	And that's a lot.
1:09.5	That is a lot to try to understand.
1:12.3	But what else are we doing? That's what we're trying to do is
1:14.8	understand and learn from the best. What are some of the best practices that people
1:18.9	use that are extraordinary thinkers and doers? How have they done what they've done?
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