[ 💭 ] True Competitors Don’t Want Things to Be Perfect
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
🌵 Weekly Newsletter & the Chase Club
We’re exploring the intense pressures faced by athletes during major competitions like the Olympics and CrossFit Games.
We examine the importance of embracing imperfection, maintaining a flow state, and focusing on character over circumstances.
We emphasize how these principles are not only pivotal for athletes but for anyone striving for excellence while battling the allure of perfectionism in today’s social-media-driven world.
⌚TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Welcome to Chasing Excellence 02:43 The Tragic Case of Katie Meyer 03:50 Embracing Imperfection in Sports 08:44 The Importance of Letting Go 11:54 The Role of Sport as a Teacher 14:15 Navigating Triggers and Flow States 17:38 Thanks to our Sponsors: Qualia Life & OneSkin 20:36 The Allure of Perfectionism 21:08 Understanding Perfectionism and Complaining 22:03 The Negative Impact of Perfectionism 24:13 Embracing Imperfection in Sports 25:59 Character Over Circumstances 31:52 Coaching Young Athletes Against Perfectionism
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ABOUT THE SHOW
We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Tuesdays & Fridays.
ABOUT US
📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, writer, and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence, a show about chasing what truly matters. |
| 0:21.6 | My name is Patrick Cummings. Thank you so much for joining us. This time around, |
| 0:25.4 | we've got a conversation that I was thinking about recently. We just got through the Summer Olympics. |
| 0:32.0 | We just got through the Crossford Games and when those events happen, |
| 0:35.8 | I always have the same thought which is, man, this is a lot of pressure. |
| 0:40.6 | For these athletes who work so hard over the course of either a year or the course of a couple years |
| 0:46.0 | and there's so much riding on this one weekend or this one event and this so much anticipation and so much pressure and so much |
| 0:53.2 | riding on the results and as I was watching again the games and the Olympics |
| 0:58.7 | I remembered a conversation that Ben and I had a few years ago about perfectionism and how athletes have to fight against the sometimes natural urge to want things to be perfect and to hold themselves up to a degree of perfectionism that isn't realistic. |
| 1:16.9 | And so given that we just came out of the Olympics and the Games, I wanted to re-share this episode |
| 1:21.1 | because I like doing that. |
| 1:22.2 | I like going back through the |
| 1:23.7 | archives and bringing back some conversations that Ben and I have had in years past we've |
| 1:28.7 | been doing the show since 2015 or 2016 so lots of good stuff in the in the archives if you're new |
| 1:35.0 | relatively new to the show a lot of conversations that you've likely never |
| 1:37.9 | scrolled all the way back to and so I like to bring them back up to the surface so |
| 1:42.4 | before we jump into it, just real quick, |
| 1:44.1 | chasing excellence dot email, if you're not |
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