E72 - Sir Ian McGeechan: Doing the world class basics
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Sir Ian McGeechan is distinguished as one of Rugby’s most popular and well regarded figures, most notably for being a true legend of the world’s most famous touring team - the British & Irish Lions. He is only person to have tasted series success as both a player and a coach.
During his playing career Ian won 32 caps for Scotland. He toured with the British Lions as a player in 1974 in the unbeaten tour to South Africa and in 1977 to New Zealand playing all eight tests. During his coaching career he spent five years with Northampton Saints after which he was appointed Head Coach at Scotland.
A PE and Geography teacher by profession, Ian has a great empathy with players, an ability to get the right people around him and is incredibly knowledgeable about the game. His quiet passion and determination to achieve excellence offer some fascinating insights about the nature of success, not just in sport but also within business.
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| 0:00.0 | Hiya, welcome along to the latest episode from the High Performance Podcast where we speak to |
| 0:06.7 | leading artists, entrepreneurs, business people and sports stars from across the planet |
| 0:12.1 | to tap into their mindset to help you live a more high performance life. |
| 0:16.3 | And today we speak to a lion. |
| 0:18.5 | In fact, we don't just speak to a lion, we speak to a man who led the lions. |
| 0:23.7 | Today we're in conversation with the brilliant Sir Ian McGeecon. |
| 0:30.0 | It sort of came from my own experience of the support I got at different stages in my life as a player |
| 0:39.9 | and a coach. You know, a father who put five pounds in my pocket when I was still at school |
| 0:48.4 | as an 18-year-old so that I could buy the rounds and stand at the bar after a game and still |
| 0:55.9 | buy around with everybody else. What I didn't know until after he died was he had to walk to work |
| 1:03.0 | the last two days of the week because he had no money. So that motivation is I would never |
| 1:10.4 | do anything second-rate. Yes, stick with us for what is going to be a really interesting |
| 1:15.4 | conversation today. There's loads of takeaways from this and actually there's a few things I |
| 1:19.1 | wrote down after our conversation with Sir Ian that I have on my desk right now but I won't |
| 1:23.5 | tell you what those are. I'll let you work out for yourself. What are the big takeaways? |
| 1:28.4 | But actually there was a big takeaway for me this week and it is about thinking big and being |
| 1:32.9 | ambitious. You might or you might not know that about a decade ago. I founded a production |
| 1:38.9 | company called The Whisper Group and we're doing okay. We've got about 150 people. We've got |
| 1:43.6 | offices right across the world. COVID was challenging for us because we produce lots of live sports |
| 1:48.5 | but I'm so proud of it because we created it from nothing and one of the things that we produce |
| 1:54.0 | is Channel 4's Formula One coverage and when we won the contract we went to Channel 4 and said to |
| 1:59.5 | them one day we'll get you Tom Cruise to be on the Channel 4 program and it was an ambition of |
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