Alright Keith, thank you for coming on finding mastery. This podcast is as you know is just we're gonna hunt and

we're gonna try to figure out how you understand how the world works and how mastery is part of your journey and the basic

mental skills that you've employed along the way and the mindset that you've

employed along the way to be able to come to the understanding that you've come to and could you

just maybe talk to us a little bit about your current role and some of the things that

you've done recently to give people a better picture of what you're up to nowadays.

Sure, Mike. I mean, first thing to say, thank you very much for inviting me to do this.

I'm very excited about it in terms of the ability to share and learn because

that's really at the core of who I am. So my role is as the high performance sport director for Malaysia.

So in essence I work for the Minister of Sport in Malaysia and I have a key responsibility for the policy and the systems and processes

to create a high performance culture and a high performance mindset for Malaysia.

And that's from grassroots level, all the way through to elite level,

through to Olympic Games level.

And I guess many people who are listening may not be familiar with Malaysia.

What I would say is, you know, Malaysia is actually one of the most progressive countries in the world and it's actually in the top 25 in the world in terms of economic power base which people might not know.

It has the population of about 30 million people and at the high end we actually have a number of world champions in a number of sports.

So we do pretty well at a, we're just looking at different ways that we can consistently

improve the level.

And unlike the US, the talent base is quite small for sport.

So we have to work out how we can work with what talent exists

and to grow that talent and to make it better. Whereas in the States, with the greatest respect, there's a real

conveyable of ready-making talent that comes through.

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