Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach Luke Walton on Coaching, Leadership, Relationships
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 11 October 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On this podcast, we get to hear from many different vantage points: artists, scientist, elite military, politicians, those who run highly successful businesses, and those who have been on the razor’s edge in the sports arena.
When it comes to elite sport, there’s a rare breed that have succeeded as both player and coach — and winning championships in both roles is almost unheard of.
That is why I wanted to sit down with Luke Walton, head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Luke played in the NBA for 10 years, winning 2 championships.
He’s coached for 4 years, winning one NBA title with the Golden State Warriors.
But even more important to his track record, Luke is flat-out a phenomenal human being.
He was hired as the 26th head coach in Lakers franchise history, the eighth individual to both play and coach for the organization, and is the youngest coach in the NBA.
Luke has been around the game of basketball and legends his entire life.
His dad, Bill, played under John Wooden at UCLA, is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and was named one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. The father/son duo are the only pair in NBA history to both win multiple NBA titles.
Luke’s had the fortune of being coached by and playing with the likes of Lute Olson, Phil Jackson, Steve Kerr, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Karl Malone, Gary Payton, and the list goes on and on.
In this conversation, we talk about the impact these people have had on the way he looks at life and how he thinks about improvement.
We discuss how relationships impact performance.
We talk about the mindset that is required to make it at the professional level and why he believes mindfulness is an important part of that equation.
I hope this conversation gives you some wonderful insight into how Luke approaches learning, living, growing and being in relationships to bring the best out of each other.
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| 0:00.0 | If I'm shooting a free throw at the end of the game and there's 20,000 fans screaming at me and there's national TV and millions of people watching across the world, my hands get sweaty thinking about that right now, but in reality of it, it's the same |
| 0:17.2 | free throw I shot a million times of my career. It's just I'm letting outside factors influence the way my brain is |
| 0:26.0 | processing this free throw and looking at it like that I have complete control of pressure situations it's how much do I want |
| 0:36.7 | to allow those outside factors to make this more challenging for me. For me. |
| 0:43.0 | All right, |
| 0:45.0 | welcome back or welcome back or welcome to The Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:55.2 | And the idea behind these conversations is to learn. |
| 0:58.5 | And in this conversation, it is a absolute joy because who we're sitting down with has learned from legends his entire life and he's been on this path of mastery for a long time. |
| 1:08.0 | And what we want to do is try to understand the psychological framework that is allowing people to pursue excellence, to pursue their very best. |
| 1:16.0 | And a psychological framework is really how they explain events in their life, how they think about themselves and other people, how they shape ideas around their craft. |
| 1:23.7 | And then we also want to explore like underneath all of it. |
| 1:27.1 | What are they really searching for? |
| 1:29.2 | What are they so hungry for that they're dedicating their life efforts towards one or two |
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