Rewire Your Self-Image to Perform Under Pressure | Collin Henderson
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
When the person is thriving, the performance follows. Why is it that we feel so comfortable talking negatively about ourselves?
The brain is designed to survive, not thrive. Our mental condition is not shaped by good things. It's shaped by what I call trauma, drama, daddy and mama shit. It takes an absolute savage warrior to get vulnerable. Oh, you isolate? That's actually weakness. You're running from truth? That's some weak shit. I have to respect your right to be average. But do you want to be average?
You let me know before we went live that you are the mindset coach for the UCLA women's basketball team who just won the national championship. And as someone who kind of dedicated their career to the performance and the psychology behind it, which I think is very important, I'm interested in the differences, whether they're nuanced or vast, between, say, business performance sports performance. And then, and even when, when I threw that out, you said military performance is a little different too. And I'm sure there's others, but let's just take those three, right? So when you're, when you're approaching someone and they're in one bucket versus the other, do you come at them from different angles?
Is there completely different processes or are we coming from the same building blocks? And then really it branches off as we get deeper into their particular field.
Yeah. And working in sport and business and leadership, you know, having spent several years with UCLA this last year, really give credit to coach Tasha Brown, who really ran the mind gym. Um, I wasn't on campus like I was other years every month, but just seeing leaders take on, whether it's sales leaders or HR directors, um, It's peak performance. It's performing under pressure. It's taking processes and delivering when it matters most. And whether you're shooting a free throw or giving a sales talk with investors, whether you are competing with other groups, or whether you run a team, you don't sell, but you have to connect and really share information. I think just basic training is what I call prehab training.
So mindset by definition is a conditioned set of beliefs that drive behavior. And if you're leading people, no matter what industry, whether it's military, business, or sport, They're forming beliefs about themselves, about the industry, about the competition, about their peers, about the marketplace. And do you let that go to chance or do you want to create a culture and a way of working in a standard of competition? How do you deal with nerves? How do you deal with imposter thoughts? How do you deal with failure? How do you deal with uncertainty?
How does Collin define mindset and why is it the missing performance skill?
So you can hope that they have the mental emotional skills to navigate those natural human emotions that arise in singing karaoke, asking someone on a date. You know, getting rejection at work, whether it's a peer that you're trying to align with or a customer. So mindset training, we feel, I feel, is the missing puzzle piece. It's the number one competitive advantage if you do it right. Because Ryan, if you can imagine us having a group of C-suite people or third line leaders that run an organization and we'd ask them, give me the traits of your top producers, top performers, what traits would they probably say? Resilience, drive, focus. Give me some more, Ryan. Give me what would you think?
Aggressive, intelligent, driven, passionate.
Yeah, and then I would say, yeah, I agree with you. Well, what are you doing to train those skills? So if you follow the work of Dr. Michael Dravet, there are three things we can train, body, craft, mind. I hope you're hydrating. I see you got your whoop. banged it in that rest recovery is that a whoop man or is that why yeah it is yeah it's the new okay so hey how's your hrv how's your how's your sleep recovery score so i hope you're exercising hydrating feeling properly but 99 of what companies are doing now is just training craft what's the product what's the marketplace what's the competition spreadsheets um PNLs, they're spending zero to no time on regulating your nervous system, breaking old negative thought patterns, the power of identity and self-image, never outperform your self-image, habits, behaviors, discipline, focus, self-awareness, empathy, creativity.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:55
2
How does Collin define mindset and why is it the missing performance skill?
2:55–25:29
3
What does “you never outperform your self-image” mean and where does that idea come from?
25:29–41:38
4
Why are we wired for negative self-talk and what do the stats on recurring thoughts reveal?
41:38–1:02:12
5
How do childhood conditioning and 'automatic negative thoughts' form our default mindset?
1:02:12–1:02:52
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