Dr. Jonathan Fader: ...it doesn't matter how much you've achieved if you aren't there to experience it

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This is an unprecedented time in all of our lives and a lot of us are looking for tools to help us manage the upheaval and come out stronger than we were before. For some advice along those lines, we turn to our guest on this episode, Dr. Jonathan Fader, who is a licensed sport, performance and clinical psychologist.

Dr. Fader has worked to sharpen the mental performance skills of the New York Giants football team, the New York Mets baseball team, and the New York Fire Department, to name just a few. He’s the author of the book, Life as Sport: What Top Athletes Can Teach You about How to Win at Life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.7	I'm Jan Black.
0:14.6	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.3	This is an unprecedented time in all of our lives,
0:19.3	and a lot of us are looking for the tools to help
0:21.6	us manage the upheaval and come out stronger than we were before. For some advice along those
0:26.6	lines, we turn to our guest on this episode, Dr. Jonathan Fader, who's a licensed sport, performance,
0:32.5	and clinical psychologist. Dr. Fader has worked to sharpen the mental performance skills of the New York Giants football team,
0:39.3	the New York Mets baseball team, and the New York Fire Department, just to name a few. He's the author
0:44.8	of the book Life as Sport, What Top Athletes Can Teach You About How to Win at Life. Dr. Fader,
0:52.4	thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be talking to you about all the ways in which
0:58.9	we can brave these uncertain times. Yeah, and tell us about what a sports and performance psychologist
1:06.2	does. Well, one of the ways that I think about the work I do is I actually think of myself a little bit more like an anthropologist.
1:13.4	I'm going into communities, mostly sports, but also, as you mentioned, fire department and first responding and many times in business.
1:21.8	And I'm bringing them tools from evidence-based psychology.
1:26.2	So I'm bringing them tools and strategies that work to help people be at their best.
1:30.9	And as we say, and as it said in the Olympics often, to focus on the right thing at the right time,
1:36.4	every time.
1:37.6	Yeah, and I wanted to touch on the Olympics.
1:39.3	I was wondering what kind of advice you've given to people who have put all of their efforts into
1:46.0	training for the Olympics thinking that they were happening in 2020 and then come to find out
1:50.8	they ended up getting moved to 2021 as we all know and they had to completely change their mindset
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