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🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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A leader is someone who sets examples, provides a vision, inspires others and establishes an effective communication protocol. Whether you’re applying that leadership to coaching professional athletes, running a business or even parenting, Justin Su’a is who you want to look to for the best advice.
Justin is the performance psychologist for the Tampa Bay Rays and he’s coming back to the Brute Podcast this week to dive into the psychology of parenthood and the benefits of watering down your child’s ambition. He also covers a few tips on how to better lead yourself so that you can lead others at work, at home and in life.
Topics:
03:10 – Watering children’s ambition
18:52 – Teaching humility
25:53 – Nothing is impossible
41:30 – Find something to focus on
50:26 – Process-oriented goals vs. result-oriented goals
Links:
Books:
Insight – Tasha Eurich
Parent Pep Talks – Justin Su’a
Essentialism – Greg McKeown
The One Thing – Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
0:26.7 | Welcome back. This is Michael Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
0:30.2 | This week I've got my good friend Justin Suwa back on the show. |
0:33.0 | Justin is one of the top mental skills coaches on the planet. |
0:37.5 | He has worked with the Cleveland Browns, with the |
0:45.0 | Tampa Bay Rays. And he is currently with the Tampa Bay Rays. |
0:47.0 | And usually we're talking all about |
0:50.0 | mental performance for elite performers and athletes and today we're talking |
0:57.8 | about similar things but about parenting as a D and I start moving closer and closer to having kids ourselves, I'm just |
1:08.2 | becoming obsessed with learning everything I can about how to think about parenting, how to actually behave as a parent, |
1:16.4 | and how to lead your kids in the best way possible. |
1:19.3 | And Justin is one of the best parents I know. |
1:23.0 | He's written books about a book about parenting. |
1:27.0 | I know that he treats his role as parent, |
1:31.0 | as important or more important as he does his career and he's always trying to |
1:38.7 | optimize. So I know he's spent so much time thinking about and researching the best ways of parenting and so I was |
1:46.0 | just really interested to hear his take. So whether you are a parent yourself a you know a one-day parent or a leader of any sort because parenting is a lot like leadership. |
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