Why You Control Your Life’s Narrative | MLB Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken Jr.

Cal Ripken Jr. (0:00)

Know that you did the work, know that you're ready, calm yourself in the moment, see the ball a long time, put a good swing on it, and the goal is to hit the ball hard. And when you hit the ball hard, then something good can happen. It's not that I'm gonna hit a home run, I'm gonna hit a double, I gotta come through now.

If you start thinking that all the time, then you're just adding layers of pressure, and then you play outside of how you play.

Michael Gervais (0:33)

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And so with that, you know, the whole idea behind what we're doing behind this podcast is to have conversations with people that are switched on. And my favorite conversations are people that have really understood from the inside out what it means to work inside the arena of high stakes, high performance environments that require, you know, a chipping all in. And those that are able to use sport and performance to be able to explore humanity and what it means to be fully alive. And really, I think the only way to do that is to understand all the different textures of being human. So that's the painful suffering side, as well as the exploratory, celebratory, you know, sometimes easier emotions to deal with, if you will.

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