E64 - Héctor Bellerín: How curiosity can seriously damage your ignorance
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
It’s our third EURO 2020 special episodes, we are joined by Arsenal and Spain defender Héctor Bellerín.
Héctor joined Arsenal from Barcelona in 2011 before making his first-team debut, aged 18, in the 2013 League Cup. He has since gone on to lift two Emirates FA Cups.
As you will discover in this compelling podcast, Héctor has fascinating interests and insights outside of the game that all contribute to his lessons in high performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to a brand new episode of the Hyperformance Podcast. I hope you're |
| 0:06.3 | having a great week. I hope this conversation adds to the great week. If you're having |
| 0:10.1 | a tough time, I hope this conversation lifts you up at a time when you need it the most. |
| 0:14.8 | Our Euro 2020 Specials in partnership with a Woop are all about letting you hear football |
| 0:20.5 | as talk in a way you just don't hear often enough. I'm so proud of these interviews |
| 0:25.2 | and I'm so proud that these people chose to join us to really open up and speak completely |
| 0:30.4 | honestly and honesty is exactly what you're going to hear from today's guest, Hector Belorin. |
| 0:36.9 | I suffered like a lack of motivation and I didn't know what it was, you know? And I've |
| 0:43.5 | spoken to the psychologists at the club and stuff and it's like, what's changed? What's |
| 0:46.2 | changed? I had just bought a house in Barcelona and then my family were living there and |
| 0:50.2 | I was like, whoa, so everything that I've been working for all these years, now I've been |
| 0:55.5 | able to do it. Now I feel like, well, I'm playing for, you know, because my family are |
| 0:59.4 | already out. So then I had to refocus and then at that time, just a few years ago, my refocus |
| 1:06.6 | was like, I had just one, I think, right back of the year in the Premier League, the FA, |
| 1:12.6 | the FA team of the year, yeah. So I was like, now I want to be in the Champions League |
| 1:16.8 | team of the year or whatever, right? I want to be the best right back in the world. And |
| 1:20.0 | I felt like, yeah, cool, that motivated me, but that wasn't focused enough. That was just |
| 1:24.8 | too vague and was too, I don't know, I feel like I couldn't put, I couldn't touch it if |
| 1:29.9 | that makes sense, you know? Whereas now it's like, I wouldn't be better than what I was |
| 1:34.0 | yesterday and I know how I was yesterday. So I know how I can be today. So this is real. |
| 1:38.1 | And I feel like if I focus on that every day, I'm going to get closer and closer to where |
| 1:42.1 | I can be. It's a brilliant episode. I suggest you grab a pen and paper. There are so many |
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