E152 - Sam Burgess: How you do anything, is how you do everything

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

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🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

We at HP are hugely excited for the start of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 so sent the Professor to record a series of interviews with some of the sports greatest names, where they share the insights, lessons and techniques they have used to scale their chosen heights.

In the first of this series, we welcome the magnificent Sam Burgess, the unassuming lad from Bradford who became a modern day gladiator in an unforgiving business.

Sam shared the heartache of nursing his dad through his battle against the cruel Motor Neurone Disease, whilst trying to break through as a teenage tyro at Bradford Bulls RLFC. "My Dad had to squeeze a lifetime of lessons into the short time he had left", Sam explained.

Once he'd established his reputation in England, he re-set his ambitions and chose to take on the challenge of conquering Australia's National Rugby League when joining South Sydney Rabbitohs, owned by actor Russell Crowe. He describes the process of changing mindsets and shaping a winning culture from the perspective of leading a dressing room.

"The question I learned to ask is: when things are tough, do I want you stood next to me?"

We are confident you'll want to hear this absorbing discussion in its full, frank and fascinating detail. Thank you Sam.

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0:00.0	How you doing? I'm Jack Humphrey. This is High Performance. Our conversation for you every
0:06.5	single week. This podcast reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, your
0:11.3	story. It's there. We just help unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's
0:16.3	highest performers into your life lessons. We speak to the greatest leaders, thinkers,
0:20.6	entrepreneurs and in this case sports stars on the planet so they can be your teacher.
0:25.5	And for the first time since we launched the High Performance podcast, Damien Hughes is
0:30.5	flying solo ladies and gentlemen. Yet welcome to the first of our special episodes to celebrate
0:36.0	the Rugby League World Cup. And over the next few weeks Damien is going to be speaking
0:40.8	to some of the greatest people ever involved in the sport. And Damien has a really rich heritage
0:46.0	when it comes to rugby, both Union and League. He's consulted some of the most famous
0:50.8	team. He's been to World Cups. He knows this sport inside out and we actually start with a really,
0:56.7	really special episode. This is what's coming your way on this Rugby League World Cup special
1:03.0	of the High Performance podcast. I had a couple of things happen early in my life that
1:09.2	you know with my father getting sick and then having to care for him that really accelerated me
1:15.1	my desire to succeed because I almost I had to succeed to be able to fund my life and help
1:20.8	care for my father. For me because he loved me, he didn't want me to see the dark side of the
1:25.8	disease. And for me that was he was showing me how much he he loved me. He went through that
1:30.8	you know to show me that it can be what he'll always be alright. And for me that taught me how to
1:36.2	love. He did that through love I think. And Russell just pulled out his pocket of a membership card
1:43.2	I don't know how to get to it. So he had my father's name on it and a couple of things he used to say
1:48.1	to me before each game. I just didn't expect that they know it came from and I just burst into
1:53.0	tears on the field and he presented it to me and he said no this is your father's seat in the
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