Ep. 321: Michael Lardon Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

The topic is mental performance coaching.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Lardon's early experiences playing professional table tennis; the "slowing down of time" and how it affects performance
The importance of mental performance in sports
Phil Mickelson's loss at the 2013 Open and his win at the British Open a month later, and how Lardon was assisting him during this period
"The yips", and what is going on in the mind when someone can no longer perform a simple activity they used to accomplish easily
Neurological vs. psychological "yips"
Lardon's opinion on what's happening with Tiger Woods currently
Narrow, intense focus vs. dropping the intense expenditure of energy when you don't need it (ie. what do you do with your downtime?)
The process of desensitization
The deliberate plan for improvement and the importance of writing things down

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	Let me read a passage from the New York Post that caught my attention.
0:37.4	Talking about Tiger Woods.
0:40.0	And sports psychologist Dr. Michael Larden, a Long Island native now living in San Diego,
0:44.8	who has worked with PGA Tour Pros for years, told the post that Woods struggle is, quote,
0:50.0	one of the most bizarre, unusual things that I've seen in professional sports.
0:55.3	To me, it's like Roger Federer not being able to make a second serve. You're looking at a guy with the most
1:00.8	sublime short game, one of the top few in history. Can you imagine Phil Mickelson
1:06.0	blading nine shots in one round? It wouldn't even be fathomable conceptually. Larden said he finds it
1:14.5	hard to believe Woods theory that his problems are all technical, adding he thinks Woods has
1:19.5	become too technical. Quote, they don't give you the trophy for the best biomechanically perfect
1:24.9	golf swing. I think he got off track with this where it became
1:28.7	more of an academic exercise for him and he moved from being an artist, this amazing artist,
1:34.7	to someone who's more of a biomechanic, end quote. I just randomly see this passage at the New
1:41.7	York Post. And I say to myself, I got to get this guy Michael
1:46.7	on my podcast. So today I have Michael Larden on my podcast. Dr. Michael Larden is one of the
1:54.6	premier mental performance coaches in the world with clients in more than a dozen professional
1:59.0	and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls, and World
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