Conor Dwyer, American Swimmer and Olympic Gold Medalist

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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🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with American Swimmer and Olympic Gold Medalist Conor Dwyer.

You wouldn’t know it looking at him now, with his 6’5”, athletic frame, three Olympic medals and four World Championships titles to his name, but success in the pool didn’t come easily to Conor.

He was a multi-sport athlete throughout his youth, settling into swimming as his main focus late in high school. He was good but never quite great and the self described ‘very late bloomer’ struggled to get any collegiate coach to look his way as graduation approached.

Unlike most of his teammates now on the U.S. National Swim Team there were no red carpet swim scholarships rolled out in his direction. But what Conor may have lacked in head-turning results early in his career he made up for with a gut- wrenching work ethic.

What changed for Conor? His mindset. His environment. His training.

In this conversation, we discuss how Conor transformed his swimming career: from unrecruited to winning multiple gold medals at the Olympic Games,

I hope this conversation reminds you that success doesn’t come early to everyone.

Conor is a great example of what happens to those who build up the capacity to persevere until they get where they want.

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0:00.0	People always ask me why what is it like when they say you know take your mark and it goes from
0:05.6	screaming to absolutely you could hear a pin drop in front of or in that arena and And that's when really the mindset is, it's go time and there's no better feeling for me than actually
0:21.4	hitting the water and being like,
0:23.0	yes, you know, this is what I do,
0:26.0	this is why I'm here.
0:28.1	But up into that point, it is very hard,
0:30.1	like you said, to stay in your head and not let stuff not get too
0:35.1	hype not get too scared there's so many things that can go wrong. All right,
0:45.0	welcome back or welcome to the Finding Master Your Podcast.
0:48.0	All right,
0:49.0	welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay.
0:51.8	I love this podcast.
0:54.2	So first of all, if you're new, seriously, welcome.
0:57.4	And for those of you are part of this
0:59.0	and been part of it for a long time,
1:00.6	how fun is this?
1:02.0	It's so good, isn't it? So the people we get to meet are phenomenal and I'm learning a lot. I'm loving it and even more so I'm loving the tribe that is being created around this and how we're supporting and challenging each other on the way. So awesome and for those who are new the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. To better understand, to dig deep to understand what they're searching for, and we really are mapping a psychological framework, which is how they explain events, how they understand themselves and other people and things that go well, and things that don't go well.
1:35.0	And then we also want to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.
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