Living with Compassion and Combatting Anxiety | NFL Player Duane Brown

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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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Duane Brown, the starting left tackle for the Seattle Seahawks.

He played college football at Virginia Tech, and was drafted by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft.

If you’re not familiar with the role of the left tackle, it’s one of the most important positions on the field, responsible for protecting the “blind side” of the quarterback.

These are big men.

Duane is about 6’3”, 315 lbs.

This conversation is about what life is like for Duane when he’s not on the field.

It’s easy to judge a book by its cover and in Duane’s case, he’s gone through life being judged by both his size and his skin color.

The conversations I enjoy most on this podcast are when the guest is willing to turn off their “marketing mind” and let us in… to really understand what’s at the center of their world.

Duane does just that… he opens up about his experiences as a child and why there were times when he felt his “light was dimmed” because it was easier to be accepted that way.

This is a powerful conversation.

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0:00.0	For me what I've had to learn is to be present. That's something that I struggled with before. I have a very just racing mind at times and you start thinking about five to ten different possibilities and
0:14.4	different outcomes of certain situations that haven't even
0:16.8	happened yet. You know what I mean? Or conversations you're having, you start
0:21.6	having a conversation and then looking you know two topics down
0:27.0	into the conversation that haven't started and thinking okay they're going to say this and
0:30.4	how do I respond to that and once you do that you start thinking about
0:33.7	situations and hypotheticals that don't happen and think about a bad
0:37.9	outcome of it and it can give you anxiety and it's stuff that's it's stuff that's
0:41.8	like very dust it doesn't it doesn't exist. You know what I mean? And it's like and I do to do that all the time. All right, welcome back. We're welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay.
1:02.4	And by Trade and Training, I'm Michael Jervay.
1:03.1	And by Trade and Training, I'm a Sport and Performance Psychologist,
1:06.3	as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create.
1:09.4	And I'm incredibly excited right now
1:11.0	because we just launched our first audible original. So it's about six
1:15.5	and a half hours. It's an audio book basically and its subtitle is an approach to living and
1:21.9	leading authentically.
1:23.2	And so it's built on this premise that everything you need, it's already inside you.
1:27.2	And so what we do is we take an in-depth look at how world-class athletes and artists and
1:32.0	entrepreneurs and top business leaders, how do world-class athletes and artists and entrepreneurs and top business leaders,
1:34.0	how do they organize their inner lives to explore the edges of their potential?
1:38.8	And at the same time help others do the same.
1:42.0	And so this book really is about celebrating the applied
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