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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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This episode explores the greatest lessons learnt from a 15 year Test cricket career, and why we should always be searching for fun and enjoyment.
Stuart Broad is a former England cricketer and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Test match bowlers of all time. Having stepped back from cricket earlier this year, Stuart explains the process behind this decision; why he made that choice and why he doesn’t like the word ‘retirement’. He shares the conversation he had with Ben Stokes before his final game in the closely fought 2023 Ashes series.
Jake and Stuart discuss the biggest lessons from his career, including when Stuart got hit for six sixes in a single over; an event which prompted him to establish processes for looking after his mental and physical well-being.
In this episode, Stuart shares insights into his personal growth journey, including the adoption of note-taking to manage emotions and anxiety, and fostering connections with teammates through honesty and self-reflection. He discusses the challenges he faced throughout his career and unveils his strategies for dealing with setbacks and creating new goals. Learn about the psychological techniques Stuart used to stay at the top of his game, inspired by lessons from Tiger Woods, Brendan McCullum and Ben Stokes.
This episode was recorded during a live event at Gillian Lynne, London to celebrate Stuart’s brand new book autobiography Speaking Broadly: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/stuart-broad-the-autobiography-pre-order-now-stuart-broad/7534896?ean=9781399729345
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0:00.0 | Hi there, you're listening to High Performance, the award-winning |
0:03.8 | podcast that unlocks the minds of some of the most fascinating people on the |
0:07.8 | planet. I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside Professor Damien Hughes we learn from |
0:12.1 | the stories, successes successes and struggles of our |
0:14.8 | guests allowing us all to explore be challenged and to grow. Here's what's coming up today. |
0:22.4 | These guys have spent money to come and watch they don't want Here's what's coming up today. |
0:22.7 | These guys have spent money to come and watch. |
0:24.7 | They don't want to see you block the ball. |
0:26.2 | Go and win the game. |
0:26.9 | And if you lose trying to win, we're all happy, |
0:29.0 | but go and win the game. |
0:30.1 | People have spent the money to come and watch you here at Lords |
0:32.4 | Home of Cricket, entertain them. |
0:33.7 | Go and hit boundaries, hit sixes, you know, try and take wickets at every ball. |
0:38.7 | If you can hold on as long to that feeling that used to get as a kid when you open the curtains on a Saturday morning and you're |
0:44.9 | praying for it not to be raining. You know, it's sunny and you're like, yes I can |
0:48.1 | play cricket, that's awesome or yeah I can play sport. It's a game based around being able to deal with failure and |
0:56.0 | being able to deal with someone getting the better of you but then bouncing back. |
0:59.8 | You know you're not going to score a hundred every day, you're not going to get |
1:01.5 | five for every day, but that's why you can't |
1:03.8 | judge yourself on the outcome all the time. |
1:05.8 | You have to judge yourself on how you felt. |
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