E70 | Rachel Llanes: Mental Performance in The Military & Beyond

The Art Of Coaching

Brett Bartholomew

Health & Fitness, Business, Education

5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00.0	Imagine this.
0:02.7	No, I mean it.
0:04.2	I don't care if you're driving, walking the dog, working out, whatever you're doing, just
0:08.2	stop for a moment and imagine this.
0:12.3	You and a friend are walking by the side of a river.
0:15.9	I don't know, maybe you're eating.
0:17.7	Whatever you want to do.
0:19.4	And suddenly you hear a shout from the direction of the water.
0:23.4	And you see a child in there and they're thrashing around, clearly they're struggling. They might be drowning. Without thinking
0:30.4	you dive in, you grab the child you swim to shore, crisis averted. But before you can recover,
0:36.5	you hear somebody else, you jump in, same thing. Oh my gosh, another one, another one.
0:40.4	Now your friends jumping in, you're going back and forth, you guys are out of breath, but you keep seeing more and more people struggling in the water, you don't know where they're coming from.
0:47.4	And then, right when you barely can keep up, suddenly you see your friend coming out of the water,
0:53.2	and sprinting off into the woods, seemingly leaving you alone to help all these people.
1:00.0	You ask somewhere they're going, and they simply answer back, I'm going upstream to tackle
1:06.5	the person who's throwing these kids in the water.
1:09.6	Now that sounds dark and maybe it is, but it's a little bit of a parable from the medical
1:14.7	community that talks about how so many people focus on downstream issues.
1:18.4	I mean, they try to figure out how to cure, quote unquote, symptoms and they don't look
1:24.4	upstream at real where the real issue
1:27.8	is occurring.
1:29.3	And guys, it happens in so many fields.
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