Discipline & Resilience | Failure & Success
Danny Hurley, Gio Valiante, Jimmy Buffet, High Achievers & more
“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.” — Gilbert Arland
Hey Coaches,
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✍️ Articles
Dan Hurley Opens Up About His Mental Health: ‘There Is No F - - - - - g Shame in It’. This is a must-read with Danny Hurley being completely open about his mental health and struggles after not feeling as fulfilled by winning a national title as he anticipated.
“Don’t get me wrong, [winning the title] was an incredible feeling in the moment. But it hasn’t fulfilled me in a way that maybe I thought it would. I was probably chasing that championship thinking there’d be some level of healing. It’s like realizing there’s no Santa Claus.”
🎙️ Podcast
The Knowledge Project: Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience. Performance coach Gio Valiante has a two-part podcast that is fantastic. The first dives into the 5 ways to win, the role our thoughts, feelings and actions play in our lives, and how to harness that to change your habits. Part two below digs deeper into how your mindset helps you succeed or fail. [October 2023 - 53 minutes] Apple | Spotify | YouTube
The Knowledge Project: Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success. [November 2023 - 55 minutes] Apple | Spotify | YouTube
“People ask me, “What do I do when I’m afraid?” Stare at it. Go eyeball to eyeball with the fear.”
“Why is everyone walking around underperforming relative to their ability? Largely, it’s because people live their lives trying to avoid embarrassment.”
“When you lose the baggage of your identity, of your ego, of yourself, what fills in the space is the freedom to create. And that freedom to create is also the freedom to take risks.”
“Where people spend too much time is [that] they try to fix the unfixable.”
“The output of a human life is essentially the expression of our repeated habits.”
💭 Miscellaneous
Nicolai Tangen (who manages $1.4 trillion) on the 2 most important traits of high achievers (source):
Bounce back factor - how well you bounce back after a loss
Debrief process - learning from wins and losses.
Jimmy Buffett on life (source):
“I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. I have seen and done things that I read about as a kid. I have dodged many storms and bounceI have seen and done things that I read about as a kid. I have dodged many storms and bounced across the bottom on occasion, but so far Lady Luck and the stars by which I steer have kept me off the rocks. I have paid attention when I had to and have made more right tacks than wrong ones to end up at this moment – with 1,000 ports of call behind me, and, I hope, 1,000 more to see. My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.”
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