NFL QB Drew Bledsoe on Being a Life Student, Entrepreneurship, Wine

Drew Bledsoe (0:02)

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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 to learn, and it's to learn the psychology of people who are on the path of mastery, how they think about the world, how they think about their craft, and the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft that they've invested so much time and energy in.

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And the reason that I was so excited to talk to Drew was because he really understands the process of transition.

And if we think about the importance of transition, transition from thoughts, transitions from roles, transitions from life events, and he's done it phenomenal, phenomenally, he's done it exceptionally well twice. And both of them are on the world stage. So he has a great point of view about this process. So the first transition he had was from the NFL into entrepreneurship. And I don't know, I think it's widely accepted that 78 to 80% of people that play in the NFL have a really hard time in transition. Within two years, they are broke, divorced or both, and it's really a tough process. So we get into the weeds a little bit about the transition from the love and passion of your first career into a second. And then the other transition process that he understands really well is he was the number one draft pick in the NFL.