Your Mindset is The Key To Success | Interview With Forrest Griffin, Vice President of Athlete Development, UFC

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Forrest Griffin, Vice President of Athlete Development for the UFC and former UFC light heavyweight champion, shares insights on: [2:02] - How the UFC Performance Institute is giving athletes tools to put their full talents on display in the octagon [3:58] - Why he says that fighting is “100% physical and 100% mental” [9:32] - The appeal that mixed martial arts has for fans and why it’s one of the fastest-growing sports [11:27] - The one common component that all great fighters share Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	your physical abilities as well as your skill set.
0:03.6	Those only work if your mind is in the right place.
0:06.8	This is the playbook.
0:09.3	Hey, this is Dave Meltzer here live at the win Las Vegas
0:14.0	in the lobby at BlueWire Studios.
0:16.5	And I have another Chevy Chase on my hands.
0:19.6	I call that because there's very few people
0:21.6	I've had on the playbook more than once,
0:24.2	but this is one of my favorite people in the world
0:26.3	because we share the same perspective
0:28.6	and the perspective for us Griffin and I have
0:31.4	is what I call rule number six.
0:33.5	It's, don't take yourself so seriously.
0:36.4	And you are someone from the time I met you,
0:39.4	you know, was so excited to meet you.
0:41.2	You're a legend of USC and I'm thinking, okay, you know,
0:44.9	I've met with all the fighters.
0:46.5	This guy's gonna be tough to talk to you
0:48.1	and all of a sudden I'm like, oh my God,
0:49.2	he's an idiot like I am.
0:50.4	This is perfect and he admits it.
0:51.8	It even makes it better.
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