E182 - Ryan Mason: How to focus on your comeback, not your set back
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Mason is currently a first team football coach at Tottenham Hotspur FC and was the youngest person ever to manage a Premier League football match at 29. Ryan played football professionally until a life changing skull injury, which he suffered during a match and led to 48 staples in his skull. In this episode they discuss the injury and the struggles that took place in the following months. He shares how he fought through the anger and resentment that followed.
Nine months after his injury, Ryan was told he would never play football again. This sudden life change led him to find a passion for coaching. He shares with Jake and Damian his coaching methods, how he builds trust within the team, how he builds emotional connections to give players strength and how crucial positive energy is.
In this episode they discuss obsession, finding the positives and emphasising freedom within football.
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| 0:39.1 | Anyway, welcome to the show. As always, this podcast reminds you that it's within your |
| 0:44.2 | ambition, your purpose, your story. They're all there. We just help unlock it by turning |
| 0:49.5 | the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. Right |
| 0:54.3 | now, allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to speak to one of the smartest young football |
| 0:59.1 | coaches on the planet so he can be your teacher and listen. Don't switch off if you don't |
| 1:05.4 | like football because this conversation is about life. It's about resilience. It's about |
| 1:12.0 | setbacks. It's about self-belief. It's incredible. Today, this is what's in store. |
| 1:20.0 | Obviously at that point is sort of code red. It's very serious. So they drilled through |
| 1:27.0 | my skull to start draining the blood as soon as possible and that bought time to then |
| 1:32.2 | go to the operating theatre and open me up and sort of see what was going on. I had to |
| 1:37.4 | accept sacrifice in my whole life to get to a certain level to live this life, to enjoy |
| 1:44.4 | playing football. That had been taken away from me. That was my dream as a kid. So I got |
| 1:50.5 | to play at White Heart Lane and score at White Heart Lane. That was my dream. That was |
| 1:53.7 | the ultimate dream as a kid and I achieved that, which is pretty cool. I had an out-of-body |
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