Turning Pain Into Passion | Trent Dilfer
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Trent Dilfer, a 14 year NFL veteran and Super Bowl Champion.
Trent played for five teams during his career, including the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns, and San Francisco 49ers.
He led the Ravens to a 34-7 victory over the Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (35).
Trent has now made it his mission in life to “give back” and has become a positive role model, coach and mentor for upcoming High School Quarterbacks through Elite 11 where he’s had the opportunity to pass on his knowledge and wisdom of the quarterbacking position to the next generation of future College and NFL Players.
Trent and I met at Elite 11 and that’s where I got to learn about how special a human being he is.
In this conversation we discuss Trent’s journey to the NFL, what he’s learned about himself along the way, and how that ultimately led him to coaching high school football – where he’s currently the head football coach at the Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee.
And while Trent is well known for his work on the football field, this conversation is really about who Trent is as a man off it.
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| 0:00.0 | I think the greatest thing I've learned in 48 years is I know who I am and I can admit all the garbage that I have and there's still tons of it. |
| 0:10.0 | Right, but at least I reckon I like my mastery is self-awareness and she would be sitting there going, well, you're not that self-worth. I am, I just still go, I don't like that part of me you know so I don't want to talk about it all the time |
| 0:27.0 | But yeah, there's still a part of me that I know where that is and it still lives in me today |
| 0:31.4 | I think I'm a high school football coach and on |
| 0:33.8 | NFL football coach because I recognize that if I went down that road that NFL football |
| 0:39.4 | I'd be just like all those NFL guys that I hate. It's about ambition, it has nothing to do with the player, |
| 0:47.0 | has nothing to do with the wins and the loss of the game. It's about them. I would probably be that guy, at 47 when I said I needed to humble myself and say no |
| 0:59.2 | this isn't about I need to do something worse about everybody else because all the issues I've had in my life is when it's been about me. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, |
| 1:25.8 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 1:29.1 | And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are committed to mastery. |
| 1:35.7 | And they might not say that like I'm on the path of mastery, but they are committed to understanding |
| 1:40.4 | the nuances of their craft. |
| 1:43.0 | And in doing so, they have so much to teach us |
| 1:46.0 | about their framework, about the mental skills that they use, |
| 1:49.0 | about how they organize their inner life, |
| 1:52.0 | how they explain events outside of them. |
| 1:54.8 | And so these conversations are meant for us to learn with one aim in mind for us to apply the |
| 2:01.0 | skills, to apply the insights, so that we can help others do the same. |
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| 2:10.0 | There's a reason that many of the world's most successful companies offer free healthy snacks to their employees at the office. |
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