DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love, NBA Stars on Mental Health
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with NBA stars DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love and it’s unique.
It comes from a live panel we did at Aspen Ideas Festival a few weeks back.
Presented by the Aspen Institute in partnership with The Atlantic, the Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation’s premier, public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to present and discuss the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times.
I was invited to host a panel on mental health in sports.
Earlier this year, Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers and DeMar DeRozan of the San Antonio Spurs, each publicly discussed their challenges with mental and emotional well-being.
Their honesty started a national conversation about breaking through the stigma and fear of openly discussing mental health issues in professional sports.
In this very personal conversation, the superstar athletes share their experiences with anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
What they reveal about mental health actually reveals much about their mental strength.
I hope this is only the beginning of an era where athletes and for that matter anyone – across any walk of life – has the courage to be vulnerable and have those difficult conversations.
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| 0:00.0 | success is not immune to depression. |
| 0:02.5 | It doesn't matter how successful you are, |
| 0:04.3 | this thing done discriminate. |
| 0:05.6 | And as I mentioned earlier, at some capacity, |
| 0:08.0 | whether it's you or somebody you know |
| 0:09.9 | or somebody that you run close to in your circle is going to be dealing with this. |
| 0:15.0 | It might be suffering silently, so I mean it's just not being afraid to having those conversations. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, |
| 0:34.5 | I'm a sport and performance psychologist, |
| 0:36.5 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:39.7 | And the whole idea behind these conversations |
| 0:42.0 | behind this podcast is to learn from people who are |
| 0:45.0 | on the path of mastery. And it's not just to learn from them, but it's to apply those own |
| 0:49.9 | learnings in our life. And what we're doing is trying to demystify how do they organize their |
| 0:55.2 | inner life? How do they organize their thoughts that lead to thought patterns and how do they |
| 0:58.8 | take actions that are lined up with their mission of their craft, as well as their philosophies in life. |
| 1:05.0 | And then underneath that, we want to see if we can understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:10.0 | I am really excited to announce that this year finding mastery is releasing our first |
| 1:16.2 | ever holiday gift guide. Yes. Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people on the planet, |
| 1:25.2 | I know the high-performer types in your life can be a little tricky to buy for. |
| 1:29.6 | Their standards tend to be really high, they rarely settle. We all know the drill here. And that's why we put together a list of some of our favorite products that have been utilized by many of the leaders and athletes and creatives that we've worked with on the path for them to be able to reach their |
| 1:45.0 | potential. The products that are on this list are all products that I use. You can check |
| 1:51.1 | it out at finding mastery.com slash gift guide. You can |
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