Exhausting Every Moment | NFL Legend, Ronnie Lott

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with NFL Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott.

Ronnie has been a champion and a leader his entire life.

After graduating high school in 1977, Ronnie went on to the University of Southern California where he helped his team win the 1978 national championship. He was a unanimous All-American and team captain in 1980 and graduated in 1981 with a degree in public administration.

Shortly thereafter, he became the first-round draft pick of the San Francisco 49ers.

His legendary football career included four Super Bowl titles and 10 Pro-Bowl appearances.

He is one of only five 49ers to play on all of the team’s 1980s Super Bowl wins. He retired from professional football in 1994 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.

Post-football, Ronnie has found success as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and also has a long history of philanthropic involvement.

So what has allowed Ronnie to be successful at pretty much everything he’s done in his life?

It starts with a commitment to excellence, a determination to be great, and his relentless will to keep trying.

For Ronnie it really comes down to “exhausting every moment.”

What I hope you pick up on in this conversation is that Ronnie’s thoughts and actions reflect a man who’s had the courage to go for it, a man who hasn’t feared the consequences of coming up short.

In Ronnie’s words: “You’ve got to dare at moments to see that you can do certain things. Sometimes you fail and sometimes you win. But the most important part of it is, did you try? Did you try to do something that maybe nobody thought you could do? “

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0:00.0	You are who you are. It's a reflection of what you see yourself as and it's a reflection of what you think you are capable of and so you got to dare at moments to see that you can do certain things and sometimes you fail and sometimes you win.
0:21.0	But the question is, which I think is the most important part of it is
0:27.3	Did you try? All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by trade and training a sport
0:44.9	and performance psychologist as well as the co-founder compete to create and I have a
0:48.7	massive frog in my throat. I'm not sure what happened but I've been ripping and running lately and I think that my vocal systems just have become compromised.
0:58.0	And so if you can bear with the voice here for a little bit on the intro, I just want to make sure that we get this
1:02.5	podcast up because you know it's fantastic and I can't wait to introduce the
1:06.6	guests that we have this week and the whole idea if you're new to this
1:09.6	podcast is to explore the inner world of people that have done the extraordinary.
1:16.0	And we want to understand what they're searching for, we want to understand their psychological framework,
1:21.0	and we also want to dig to understand the mental skills they use to build and
1:25.2	refine their craft.
1:27.2	Now this week's conversation is with NFL Hall of Famer, Ronnie Lott, and Ronnie has been a champion and a leader his entire life.
1:36.7	After graduating high school in 1977, Ronnie went on to the University of Southern California where he helped his team win the 1978 National
1:45.9	Championship.
1:46.9	One year at high school, how about it?
1:48.9	He was a unanimous All-American and team captain in 1980, graduated in 81 with a degree in public
1:55.8	administration. Shortly after that he became the first round draft pick in the
2:01.0	NFL for the San Francisco 49ers.
2:04.0	And his legendary football career included four Super Bowl
2:07.5	titles and 10 Pro Bowl appearances.
2:10.7	And he's one of the only five 49ers to play on all the teams in the 1980s where the team had multiple Super Bowl wins.
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