Colin O'Brady: Explorers Grand Slam

Michael Gervais (0:09)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And the idea behind these conversations is just to sit down with people who are on the path of mastery, to better understand their psychological framework, which is a fancy phrase for how they understand how the world works, how they understand how they fit in it. We also wanna understand what's driving them. What are their motivations? What are they searching for? And how they line up those motivations to be able to pursue the edge of their potential. And then the third component is to also understand their unique mental skills that they are refining and building along the journey. So that we can apply these in our own life to pursue our own potential, whatever that might mean for us. Okay, so as a quick little note here, I want to share a project that we're launching and it's called The Mindset Project.

And I think this is gonna be a blast. Okay, so Nicole Davis and Ariana Cukors, both Olympians who we've had conversation with on Finding Mastery and our very own Trevor Baru, they're on a mission to be able to learn from the best as well. And they're gonna do this in Rio.

They're going down with one mission in mind to explore and to decode the mindset of Olympians who are competing in Rio right now. That's so cool. This is gonna be unbelievable, I think at least. And so Ariana and Nicole, they're Olympians as we know, and they're not currently competing. So it gives them this opportunity to head down for a few weeks to interview some of their former teammates, their former competitors, and folks that they're inspired by. To really work to understand how those athletes now are training confidence, optimism, grit, the other mental skills that we talk about.

And so it's an Olympian meeting an Olympian talking about mindset, decoding it, helping us understand. And this is just meant to stimulate a conversation. And we're going to use this in other ways later, but more of that to come in a bit.

And so here's where we'd love your help. We'd love for us to join this conversation on social. And what that means is like, what questions do you have for Olympians around the core mindset principles? And then to be able to ask that question, like asking Katie Ledecky, how does she manage pressure? Or how does she manage to have so much fun when, sorry, that's my dog in the background. Or how much does she manage to have so much fun when people around her are losing her mind? And like, what are the ways that she develops confidence? I mean, you get the idea here.

And then, so ask that question on social, then tag that athlete that you want to learn from.

And maybe what you do is also ask and tag an athlete in your community that you respect. So it's one thing to learn from best in the world, and then also learn from folks that you respect in your community that are doing amazing things. And we just pull all this data together, all this information together, and see if we can really formalize some deeper understandings of what's happening. So here's what we want you to do, or ask you to help out with if you're so inspired, is to ask a question, hashtag the mindset project, make sure that you connect, what's it called, at somebody like at Katie Ledecky, I don't know what her social handle is, or somebody in your community. And let's see if we can have some fun with this. Let's see if we can learn and share what we're learning. And so that's it. So that's called the mindset project. And yeah, looking forward to engaging with you on social. And we'll be feeding this information back the best way we can from Rio. So it's called the mindset project. Okay, cool. I wanna take a minute here to announce a really exciting event that we have coming up. As you continue to navigate the challenges and opportunities of 2024, I wanna pose a question. What are you doing right now to be great with stress? How are you working with stress on your pursuit towards your most important ambitions and goals? And I just wanna get right to the heart of the key elements, one in particular, for what it takes to excel in today's high heat, high stakes world. Because stress is not the problem that we think it is. Stress is a synonym for change. And our ability to be agile with change, that is the real opportunity at hand. So if you're wanting to unlock extraordinary results and sustainable performance in your life, it's not about avoiding or reducing stress. And as simple as that sounds, it's very tricky to do, but it is about fundamentally changing your relationship with it.