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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Pete Carroll: Competing to Be Your Best

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Mindset, Finding Mastery, Business, Sport Psychology, Education, Health & Fitness, Michael Gervais, Psychology, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-improvement, Self Help

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Coach Pete Carroll has a philosophy. It's clear to him. He's found it to be extremely powerful to help himself and others to become the very best version of themselves: Always Compete. He doesn’t talk about past success. He doesn't become consumed with what is yet to come. He lives engaged in maximizing wherever his feet are.

In This Episode: -Why having a chip on his shoulder helped shape him -The importance of being present -How competition fuels him -Why you can’t be afraid of failure -Creating your own reality -Helping others become optimistic -The moment he knew he had a different vision for coaching -Relationship-based approach to coaching -Why he doesn’t need to talk about winning -Dealing with difficult outcomes -The moments between the moments -The importance of the Seahawks culture -How he instills a risk-taking mentality in his players -Getting to the truth of what went wrong when mistakes happen -Why it all comes downs love

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0:13.0

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay.

0:14.0

And these conversations are designed to be able to sit down

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with people who are on the path of mastery.

0:21.0

Finding Mastery is brought to you by Natural Stex.

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It's been found to consume roughly around 20% of your energy every day.

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That means an important factor between the days you feel

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