How to Teach Grit - Five Minute Thursday

The Dad Edge Podcast

Larry Hagner

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Teach GRIT!

The Good Dad Project Podcast with Frankie Edgar was a game changer for so many reasons. The coolest thing about the GDP and having a dad podcast is that no matter fame nor fortune, men jump at the chance to share their views, their journey, and even their struggles.

For this week's five minute Thursday, I wanted to recap some highlights from the interview with Frankie.

When under pressure, be calm, cool, and collected

When the UFC Octagon cage doors close…anything can happen. The secret to a successful outcome in the octagon is being prepared for anything because anything can happen. Frankie shares that being calm, cool, and collected is absolutely necessary to be able to think rationally.

Being calm, cool, and collected is a skill that transfers from the cage to the family. Through our journey of fatherhood, there will be situations that test us under pressure. When we respond calmly and avoid a knee-jerk panic reaction, it illustrates our emotional resiliency.

How to teach GRIT

Teaching grit is probably one the most difficult lessons to teach our kids. Our instinct is to protect them from anything that is difficult. Our society also puts such an emphasis on winning at all costs.

Frankie mentioned that he loves leveraging sports to teach his kids grit. For example, he doesn't really care if his kids win or lose a wrestling match. What he wants to see if how hard they fight for the win. If there isn't a desire and a fire in the belly to win, that is a bigger problem. None of us can coach desire. Desire is either there or it's not. However, we can teach how to leverage our desire to win to tap into our grit. We can even leverage our losses to teach us lessons on how to win in the future. Finally, we can teach grit through losing and failure. A victory is even sweeter when we have to work at it extremely hard. Lessons of grit are learned through sports and as parents we can use situations like losses to teach these lessons.

For Parents of Youth Sports: Take a Seat and Enjoy

Frankie had some excellent advice for parents of youth sports and that's "take a seat and enjoy." Be the silent voice of love and support when it comes to sports. Its extremely difficult to not get emotionally wrapped up in our kids sports performance. I am speaking from a father who is a parent and a coach of my kids sports teams and I see it all the time.

Parents can be extremely tough on their kids even when they think they are helping. I didn't really get this mentality until I read The Matheny Manifesto by Mike Matheny, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. If you really want to see your child love sports and if you want to see peak performance…take a seat, enjoy, and let the coaches do their jobs.

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0:00.0	We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. We sharpen
0:10.9	our skills so we can show up best for others.
0:14.0	We have one shot in life to be a dad.
0:20.0	Why not make it epic?
0:27.0	Hey, what's up guys?
0:29.0	Hey, what's up guys? It's Larry Hagner with the Good Dad Project Podcast.
0:31.0	Hope you guys are doing well.
0:32.0	Having an awesome
0:33.7	awesome week and here we are at our third five minute Thursdays and if this is
0:39.5	your first time here five minute Thursdays real really what it is is it's some powerhouse
0:43.4	cliff notes that you can take into your weekend and what I've heard from the
0:48.0	community is that we have our big show our weekly show every single Monday
0:51.8	morning waiting for you guys and what I've heard
0:54.4	is guys really like that they really like having the big episode on Monday morning
0:58.8	because it sets their week up for success we have the majority of our guys from what we've heard
1:04.8	listened to our podcast on their commute to work and it really just gets them in a
1:10.5	good frame of mind. So what we want to do though is we've really listened to you guys
1:15.5	and we've really listened to our community.
1:17.6	And what we've heard is, is like, hey, you know,
1:19.9	Monday through Wednesday, I'm feeling pretty good.
1:22.0	Thursday, the momentum kind of wears off and then Friday you know I kind of need something
1:26.4	for my weekend and that is where this whole thing comes from the five minute
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