Steve Kerr, Golden State Warriors Head Coach
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Steve Kerr, head coach of the Golden State Warriors.
Currently in his fifth season as head coach, Steve has guided the club through four of the most prolific seasons in NBA history with a list of accomplishments that includes:
- Three NBA championships
- Four-straight NBA Finals appearances
- The NBA’s single-season wins record (73)
- An NBA Coach of the Year award (2015-16)
- Four of the five winningest seasons in franchise history
Steve, who won five NBA championships during a 15-year playing career, now owns eight championships as either a player or coach, becoming the first to win three NBA titles as a player and three as a coach.
So I think it’s clear – Steve understands winning but he’s searching for something beyond that.
He has made it a point to revolve the Warriors’ culture around joy.
In this conversation, we discuss how Steve went about building the Warriors’ culture, what he’s most hungry for, and his biggest challenge at the moment – finding a way to keep the Warriors motivated and playing with joy after they’ve already experienced so much previous success.
Steve is one of the brightest minds in the game of basketball and I think you’re going to love his insights on not just basketball, but life as a whole.
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| 0:00.0 | There's obviously kind of a magic that that comes together when it all works and and that magic is |
| 0:09.1 | dependent on so many people and and you know obviously talent but people being invested in the same thing |
| 0:18.3 | meaning management and ownership and players and and so if you get the right people and talented people and you get them invested and |
| 0:27.8 | you can sort of give them a vision and practice that vision every day. |
| 0:34.7 | That's when you see it start to come together. |
| 0:36.3 | And that's, to me, that to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:52.6 | I am Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm a sport and performance psychologist. |
| 0:57.1 | And the whole idea behind these conversations |
| 0:59.9 | is to learn and then apply those learnings to your own life. |
| 1:03.4 | And we want to learn from people who have committed their life efforts |
| 1:07.1 | to the path of mastery. |
| 1:08.9 | And inside of that, we want to understand |
| 1:11.1 | what they're searching for. We want to understand their they're searching for. |
| 1:12.8 | We want to understand their psychological framework, |
| 1:14.7 | which is how they make sense of their internal world, |
| 1:17.5 | how they make sense of events around them. |
| 1:19.6 | And we also want to dig to understand the mental skills |
| 1:22.1 | that they use to build and refine their craft. |
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