Getting to The Truth | NBA Coach, George Karl

George Karl (0:00)

The one thing that the game of basketball is missing, maybe sports is missing now, is joyfulness. We don't enjoy winning anymore. We don't enjoy 55 wins, because if you lose in the first or second round of playoffs, we don't have enough celebration of doing it the right way, and doing it in a proud and a degree of excellence.

And I don't know if that's our society right now. You know, there's so much scrutiny and opinion, and you know, it's easier to sell the negative than it is to sell the positive. And I think so much of basketball now is the next day, and not a celebration of your success of the day before. The joyfulness, the mindfulness of a purpose, accomplishing a purpose, we don't have that in our game very much.

Michael Gervais (1:10)

Okay, 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 I just gotta say, I love this community.

I really love this podcast. I really enjoy how much I'm learning, how joyful it is to share, how challenging and insightful and wonderful, like being in the conversations with the men and women I get to be in the conversations with is. And so the whole idea behind these conversations is to understand from people who have dedicated their life efforts towards mastery, to understand what is it they're searching for, how do they organize their inner life, and what are the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft and become a better version of themselves. I'm far more interested in mastery of self than mastery of craft, but it is the mastery of craft that allows us to dig in and understand that second, what I would say is foundational part.

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