Dr. Michael Gervais

It was like three weeks at the beginning of the year when we're working on our culture, when we're working on our psychology as a team approach, three weeks we're installing the way that we think is gonna give us the best chance of training our mind, training our craft, and training our body to be great teammates for each other.

So each person to be their very best so we can be great teammates to each other.

That's what makes a great team.

Side note, I'm fatigued about like, how do we make a great team?

You'd be great teammates.

How do you be a great teammate?

You invest in you being absolutely your best in the most stressful conditions.

You will never be a great teammate if you're losing your shit as soon as it gets stressful, as soon as it gets scary, as soon as it's not going according to plan.

When you're blaming other people, when you are pointing your finger, when you are...

intolerant of other people's process you'll never be a great teammate you'll never be part of a team and we need each other to do the extraordinary so i'm ringing the bell you've got to invest in your psychology to be great at the moment of stress okay back to the scenario this three-week install at the beginning of the year and then it's a throwaway comment by usually it was for both of these years in particular it was by the head coach p carol

And he says, if we do what we just said, and we do it to our very best abilities every day, we just might win the whole thing.

That was the only time that we talked about winning.

I'm being dramatic.

Maybe there was another mention somewhere in the year.

But as a unit, we only focused on the things that were 100% under our control.

So I've got living proof through that story that it is an outsized investment when you are mastering the things that are in your control.

Self-talk.

There is not a word out of place.

I think what is important for me to add to that, which is very little, is that we have to practice working with emotions.

And so if you're practicing, just like we talked about earlier, there's steps.