Putting Principles Into Action | NFL Legend, Jim Zorn
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Jim Zorn, a former NFL quarterback and coach who currently serves as head coach and general manager of the Seattle Dragons of the second incarnation of the XFL.
Jim was the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks during their first eight seasons as a franchise and is a Seattle legend.
He’s known as one of the more prolific scrambling quarterbacks of his day and was the second Seahawk ever inducted into the team’s “Ring of Honor” in 1991.
Jim also coached in the NFL from 1997 to 2012.
In this conversation we discuss what led Jim to football, what he learned about the mental side of the game, and how to move past caring what others think of you.
In Jim’s words: “I had to be willing to be embarrassed if I was going to try to get better.”
That’s a really cool thought and Jim has so much wisdom and insight to share in this conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes I think we as people we see ourselves as victims and I think part of my upbringing is I've had to say to myself |
| 0:10.9 | Don't don't be a victim here. |
| 0:13.4 | This is just the way it is, so deal with the way it is. |
| 0:16.8 | You can't be a victim all your life. |
| 0:19.2 | But then the second thing is, is we're always wanting to say that feelings if you will are neither right |
| 0:26.0 | nor wrong. They're just feelings. Just because you have a feeling doesn't make it a fact. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, |
| 0:49.3 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind these conversations |
| 0:55.1 | behind this podcast is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts |
| 0:59.4 | towards mastery. And what we're wanting to do is understand like what is it that they're searching for? What is their psychological framework? |
| 1:08.0 | A fancy phrase, for how do they make sense of the world around them? How do they explain why things happen, how things |
| 1:14.8 | happen, what is their relationship with the world, what is their purpose in life, |
| 1:18.9 | all of that stuff is psychological framework. So we really want to dig to best understand we can |
| 1:24.4 | how they organize their inner life. And then we also want to understand the |
| 1:27.8 | mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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