What Makes a Great Coach? | Hall of Fame Softball Coach, Sue Enquist

Sue Enquist (0:00)

People in general, it doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room or the best athlete in the room, if we did a better job of understanding how we can control our strong and our weak voice internally, we can end up doing more, enjoying more, but most importantly, stop putting so much value on taking the step based on whether I'm going to be successful. Take the step because you're curious and you've done the work. Most people that are over thinkers have done the work already.

Michael Gervais (0:41)

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Gervais, by Trade and Training, a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind this conversation, behind these podcasts, is to learn from people who have dedicated their life efforts towards understanding the nuances of their craft. And the crafts that we get to explore are as wide ranging as the imagination for humans are. And so, the idea is not to necessarily be deeply attuned to the craft that the person on the interview is about, but to understand, to double click under, to triple click under, and to really get to the source of what is it that they're searching for, how are they organizing their life, how do they deal with obstacles, whether they're internal or external, and what are those mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft? And it's not just about craft. These conversations are, as it's sorting out, really about mastery of self expressed through mastery of craft.

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Okay, this week's conversation is with Sue Enquist, UCLA's softball first all-American national champion and Hall of Famer.