DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Love, NBA Stars on Mental Health

Kevin Love (0:00)

Success is not immune to depression.

It doesn't matter how successful you are, this thing doesn't discriminate. And as I mentioned earlier, at some capacity, whether it's you or somebody you know, or somebody that you run close to in your circle is gonna be dealing with this. It might be suffering silently. So, I mean, it's just not being afraid to have having those conversations.

Michael Gervais (0:28)

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. And it's not just to learn from them, but it's to apply those own learnings in our life. And what we're doing is trying to demystify how do they organize their inner life? How do they organize their thoughts that lead to thought patterns? And how do they take actions that are lined up with their mission of their craft, as well as their philosophies in life? And then underneath that, we want to see if we can understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

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