Jim Taylor, PhD | How Sports Help Kids Win at Life

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Less than 1 percent of kids grow up to be pro athletes. But the point of getting kids involved in sports isn’t to raise the next Serena or LeBron, says sport psychologist and parenting expert Jim Taylor, PhD. It’s to give them the mental tools to be healthy, happy and successful for the rest of their lives. On this episode, the former alpine ski racer breaks down the benefits of youth sports and shares advice on how parents can get — and keep — kids involved. The secret, he says, is creating positive athletic experiences and not buying into the “youth sports industrial complex.” Drawing on his experience as a father of two athlete daughters, he also digs deep into all the factors that can hold girls back in sports and identifies ways that each of us can help close that gender gap.

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0:00.0	Oh hello, welcome to trained body and mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic
0:06.3	fitness.
0:07.3	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:09.3	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:13.4	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:16.4	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:18.7	Today, I'm talking with a sports psychologist who believes that active children go on to
0:22.9	be happier, healthier, more successful adults.
0:26.6	But not for the reasons you might think.
0:31.4	Play is so vital to our development, whether you're three or 13 or 23 or 53.
0:37.2	If we can keep that perspective, then good things are going to happen.
0:41.0	I can't tell an athlete I start to work with that if we work together, you're going to
0:44.4	be an Olympic gold medalist.
0:45.4	I'm not that good.
0:46.4	But I always just say, if you do the right things, good things will happen.
0:51.0	And that could be a gold medal, but it doesn't really matter because the ultimate good thing
0:55.0	that happens is becoming healthy, positive, optimistic, capable people.
1:03.4	That sports psychologist and parenting expert Jim Taylor, boiling down the power of sport
1:07.4	to a single word.
1:09.0	Play.
1:09.8	For Dr. Taylor, it's the kernel from which every MVP career starts.
1:14.0	Not with a desire to win, though that might come later, but for my kids' fundamental impulse
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