Written by Codie Sanchez
Jason Richardson… (all social links are here)
Secrets from the Psychologist to Professional Athletes & Olympians
How to Find Fulfillment, Happiness, and Peace. Aka How Do We Win at Life?
To make it to the peak of any sport (and isn’t that what life is?) most athletes will tell you the athletic ability is just the foundation, the real difference is mental fortitude or how strong your mind is. It makes sense. As did you know, we are actually more likely to die in a car accident (1 in 113) than make it as a professional football player even as a kid who plays in high school or college (1 in 325 college students make it or 1 in 1,010 high school players). To beat those kind of odds you must have a different mental gear I figured. So I tracked down the man who gets in the heads of the highest performing among us, professional athletes and Olympians, Dr. Jason Richardson.
I am fascinated with the mind and the power it has over each of us and humanity collectively. So when I came across World Champion BMX biker, professional speaker and psychologist to champions Dr Jason Richardson, I interrogated him in my typical reformed journalist manner. Jason specializes in human behavior and specifically how to train your brain like an athlete trains his or her body. I love the idea that we could actually control our actions and thought patterns through better understanding our own cognition. So in this episode we dive into Jason’s book, Gold Metal Mindset, what the biggest mistakes are people make when they try to change their habits, how he overcomes anxiety and recalibrates his mind, and the lessons he’s imparting upon hundreds of clients and listeners so that they can go become world class in their own right. I hope you enjoy this episode, consider it a free chat with your very own award winning psychologist, as much as I enjoyed interviewing him.
“I love the idea that we could actually control our actions and thought patterns through better understanding our own cognition”
“There are a million tactics but if you don’t plug your DNA into whatever it is you do, the tactics won’t work.”
Favorite quotes:
“Humans are an interesting bunch. We’re messy at best. Beautiful, but messy.”
His mantra: “The more I do, the more I can do.”
“Your primal brain is designed for one function. To protect you.”
“There are a million tactics but if you don’t plug your DNA into whatever it is you do, the tactics won’t work.”
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