Cliff Avril, Retired NFL Defensive End
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Cliff Avril, a former NFL defensive end.
Cliff played college football at Purdue and was drafted in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions.
He also played for the Seattle Seahawks, where he won Super Bowl XLVIII and made a Pro Bowl.
Cliff and I met at the Seahawks and I had the pleasure of catching up with him at the NFL Combine this past week in Indianapolis.
He recently retired after a great 10-year run in the league and is searching for what to do next.
What’s his purpose now that the craft he’s dedicated more than half his life to is no longer the priority?
Transitions can be tricky for all of us so I think you’ll really appreciate Cliff’s honesty, his willingness to be vulnerable, and his overall approach to life.
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| 0:00.0 | Because you get this all the time. People are like, oh, you're retired, you know, you play 10 years in the league. |
| 0:04.9 | What are you going to work for? Like 32 years old? Like, what do you mean? Like, everybody wants to roll out of bed and have a purpose. So that's my anxiety more so than anything is like trying to |
| 0:14.9 | figure out what that next thing is, what else I'm passionate about, to wake up, roll out of the |
| 0:20.4 | bed outside of obviously my family and my kids, |
| 0:23.1 | but wake up out of bed and have a purpose. All right. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and |
| 0:41.8 | performance psychologist as well as the co-founder of |
| 0:44.9 | Compete to Create. |
| 0:47.1 | And the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn how the |
| 0:53.0 | extraordinary's think and do, how they organize their |
| 0:57.1 | internal world and their external life, to understand |
| 1:00.4 | what they're searching for, what they're driven by, basically want to understand their psychological framework, |
| 1:06.1 | the path that led them to now, and the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their |
| 1:11.1 | craft. |
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