Annabel Anderson, 5x SUP World Champion

Annabel Anderson (0:00)

The highs are so momentary, and they can be so few and far between, that unless you love the boring and the mundane on the daily, you better go find something else that you actually do like, because this, for this, maybe months or years in between, that's kind of really hard. So what is going to be fulfilling?

And then this is really just an, when or if success or great things do happen, it's just an elevation or the cherry on the top.

Dr. Michael Gervais (0:48)

All right. Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind these conversations, behind this podcast, is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. We want to understand what they're searching for, how they organize their internal world as well as their external life. Like how do they make sense of the world? And really what we're searching for there is what is their psychological framework? How do they make sense of things?

And then we also want to understand how they build and refine their craft by using very particular mental skills.

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Now, this week's conversation is with Annabel Anderson. She is world number one in her sport from 2012 to 2017 Think about that.

Think about that for just a minute. World number one, best in the world at your sport from 2012 to 2017 That's five years. It's incredible. Her sport of choice is stand up paddling. She's won the biggest titles in the sport multiple times. Like I said, five world championships. She's beaten the best men in the sport as well. Because of that, she orchestrated the campaign that resulted for equal pay and opportunities for female athletes globally in her sport. It's phenomenal. And she's also an elite cyclist and mountain biker and skier and sailor. And she has a great understanding of surfing as well.