Why You Control Your Life’s Narrative | MLB Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken Jr.

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Cal Ripken Jr., baseball’s all-time Iron Man.

Cal retired from baseball in October, 2001 after 21 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles.

Although he began and finished his career at third base, Cal is still best known for redefining the position of shortstop.

On July 29, 2007 he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Cal received the 4th highest percentage of votes in history, collecting the second highest vote total ever by the BBWAA.

His name appears in the record books repeatedly – he’s one of only eight players in history to achieve 400 home runs and 3,000 hits.

But most notably Cal broke Lou Gehrig’s Major League record for consecutive games played (2,130) playing 2,632 consecutive games before he voluntarily ended the streak.

Think about that for a second – that’s 16 years straight without missing a game.

Imagine not missing a day of work for 16 years… imagine the willpower, the mental fortitude required to keep at it.

We get into that in this conversation.

Cal shares some amazing stories from his career to help illustrate what was really going through his mind during “The Streak,” why he had such a high standard of excellence and cared so deeply about playing the game the right way.

We touch on focus, resiliency, motivation, pressure and more…

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0:00.0	Know that you're ready calm yourself in the moment see the ball a long time
0:06.7	put a good swing on it and the goal is to hit the ball hard and when you hit the
0:11.0	ball hard then something good can happen.
0:13.0	It's not that I'm going to hit a home run.
0:15.0	I'm going to hit a double.
0:16.0	I got to come through now.
0:18.0	If you start thinking that all the time,
0:20.0	then you're just adding layers of pressure.
0:22.0	And then you play outside of how you play. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervais. By trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, and I just want to take a moment here to thank you if you've already picked up a copy of my new audible original, and that's titled Compete to Create, and approach the Living and Leading authentically.
0:54.8	And if you found it meaningful, it'd be awesome.
0:57.0	If you could give it a review on audible.com forward slash compete to create. And if you haven't had the chance to pick it up, I hope you do.
1:06.5	And so with that, you know, the whole idea behind what we're doing behind this podcast is to have
1:12.0	conversations with people that are switched on.
1:14.0	And my favorite conversations are people that have really understood from the
1:20.4	inside out what it means to work inside the arena of high stakes, high performance
1:27.0	environments that require a chipping all in in and those that are able to use sport and performance to be able to explore
1:39.0	humanity and what it means to be fully alive and really I think the only way to do that is to understand all the different
1:46.5	textures of being human. So that's the painful suffering side as well as the exploratory, celebratory, you know, sometimes easier emotions to deal with, if you will.
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