Coach Anne Parmenter on Resiliency, Mindset, Ethics

Anne Parmenter (0:00)

Most sports, most things in life are about making mistakes all the time. It's about how we recover from our mistakes that makes the best athlete, the best team, the best person.

Life is not a perfect science. And so if you're not afraid to push the envelope to the point that you're going to fail, you'll never know how far you can push that.

Michael Gervais (0:35)

Our welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. And we want to better understand what they're searching for. We want to understand their psychological framework, which is how they understand the world themselves, events in it. And we also want to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.

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And for this week's conversation, I hope you enjoy this. There's so much loaded in here. And before we jump into it, imagine being within striking distance of a lifelong dream.

It's right there. You can see it. You can feel it. It's right there.

And then to realize that you're at a fork in the road.

If you continue onward in the pursuit that you're on, you put others' lives in danger, or if you turn back and potentially never have the opportunity to take a shot at your dream again. So that's the crux of this conversation. If you move forward, and this is not like this, I don't know, like make-believe scenario. This is something that is very concrete. There's a time-sensitive decision. If you move forward, you put other lives at harm, and if you turn back, you might not ever get your shot.