Paul Rabil, Premier Lacrosse League Co-Founder
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Paul Rabil, a professional lacrosse player and co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League – a new professional lacrosse league launched in October 2018, with 160 of the best players in the world and a major media rights deal with NBC Sports Group.
Paul has gone on to influence the sport at every level, winning championships and MVP’s twice in the NCAA’s, multiple times in professional outdoor and indoor lacrosse, as well as becoming a two-time World Lacrosse Champion with Team USA.
I wanted to speak with Paul to understand how he's organized his inner world and his external life.
What was his childhood like? Did he want to be his best, or the best? Did his motivations change once he was recognized as being the best?
And most importantly, after all the success he’s had, why did he want take on the enormous challenge of building a professional sports league from scratch?
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| 0:00.0 | If someone does well and you're an athlete who doesn't like to celebrate someone else's goal, |
| 0:05.0 | then you're probably not an empathic individual and you're probably going to skew when someone's, |
| 0:10.0 | when someone messes up into yelling at them. |
| 0:12.0 | But if you can practice empathy and positive moments too, |
| 0:15.0 | it's a really enriching experience. |
| 0:17.3 | So I also like to call that out. |
| 0:18.9 | That is in the workplace as well. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, |
| 0:36.1 | a Sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:41.4 | And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:46.2 | We want to understand how the extraordinary, how they think and how they do, how they organize their inner world as well as their external life to be able to maximize their |
| 0:55.5 | understandings and to go deeper with those understandings. |
| 0:59.4 | And we want to understand what they're searching for, what they crave, where they find contentment and peace. |
| 1:05.0 | And we also want to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:10.0 | I am really excited to announce that this year finding mastery is releasing our first ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes. |
| 1:19.0 | Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people on the planet. |
| 1:24.0 | I know the high-performer types in your life can be a little tricky to buy for. |
| 1:28.5 | Their standards tend to be really high, they rarely settle. |
| 1:32.3 | We all know the drill here. And that's why we put... really high, they rarely settle. |
| 1:32.7 | We all know the drill here. |
| 1:34.0 | And that's why we put together a list of some of our favorite products |
| 1:37.5 | that have been utilized by many of the leaders |
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