Coach Bob Bowman on Balancing Stillness and Excellence | You Have To Earn That Trust

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Bob Bowman, who is best known as the coach of 23-time Olympic gold medalist American swimmer Michael Phelps, about how athletes can maintain stillness while still performing at a high level of excellence, the importance of preparation and how to lean on your training, finding the balance between the pursuit of excellence and internal peace, and more.

Bob Bowman is an American swimming coach who is the current head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils swimming and diving teams of Arizona State University. From 2005 to 2008, Bowman served as the head coach for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team of the University of Michigan men's swimming & diving team. From 2008 to 2015, he worked as the CEO and head coach for North Baltimore Aquatic Club.

Check out Bob Bowman’s book: The Golden Rules: Finding World-Class Excellence in Your Life and Work

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcasts early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.2	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short
0:20.0	passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays
0:27.5	We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure
0:34.0	Fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and
0:40.9	Also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:50.3	You have to earn that trust
0:53.0	You hear people talking about how you have to trust yourself about going with your gut about listening to your body
1:00.0	The Stoics might ask have you really earned that trust?
1:04.0	It is true that Aristos one of the early Stoics
1:06.5	I profiled in lives of the Stoics was a big believer in the idea that the philosopher simply knows
1:11.8	They don't need precepts or reminders or laws. He said they just know
1:15.8	But the metaphor he used of a javelin thrower is important and
1:19.3	An athlete trains for years to gain their intuition
1:23.4	It's thousands of hours of practice their faith in themselves and their instincts is rooted in evidence and experience
1:30.0	Not hope you realize why Marcus a really is journaled every day why Santa Corota's letters why the Scipion X Circle met regularly
1:37.7	Was a form of training
1:39.2	They were trying to turn these teachings into muscle memory
1:42.2	They were trying to build the deep familiarity with wisdom and virtue so that in difficult situations
1:48.5	Their instincts would be based on something worth trusting and you can get to a place where your gut is worth listening to but it doesn't come easy
1:57.1	It's certainly not natural you have to train you have to put in the work you have to earn that
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