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Interview With Reggie Walker And David Carter: Athletes Are Humans Too Failing Forward With Nikou Lohse Podcast
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In this episode, Nikou introduces season 3 of the podcast by talking to former NFL players Reggie Walker and David Carter about failing forward and how to find your best self through trials, tribulations and adversity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Mental health is something everyone needs to maintain and suffers from from time to time.You become very aware that football carries a 100% injury rate, they tell you in the NFL that it's not an ‘if' thing, it's a ‘when' thing. As soon as you're thinking about not getting injured, that's your time to get out of there, because to do the job you need to be in a very special place.If anything's bothering you, you shouldn't be on the field. With anything other than what's in front of you on your mind you will get hurt, as soon as you hesitate.Any professional coach will tell you that sports are 90% mental and 10% physical. There are some monsters out there that can bench-press the world and can outrun a cheetah, but they'll be cut and out of league next week. The ones that last are the ones who have their mental down, they understand what their strategy is, what their tools are, what their weaknesses are. It's the same in life too.You need to be regimented, you need to know you're putting the best possible product out there. You're competing each and every day, so you need to eat right, manage your relationships in and outside of the building.Sports is all about relationships, the rest of the team could win without me and don't absolutely need me, but I can help to win more. So you have to be a good leader, a good follower, support people, gain their trust. You need to have a set of tools to bring to the game, not just one.There's a lot of weight on you because it's a game of inches and there are 53 players on a team and only 11 on the field. I've seen guys get cut because they were around the guy who made the mistake! Keeping the negativity from the press, the internet and the commentators – I have a special place of dislike for those guys, when you're watching a game, you can't ever tell definitely who made a mistake in a play.When you tell yourself ‘I'm not gonna do this or that' you're kinda telling yourself to actually focus on these things. You need to say ‘I'm doing this solely and nothing else matters'. Meditation helps with that.I've always brought curiosity to what I do and get excited About exploring something different, finding out something new about yourself and seeing where that takes you.It's all about the setup. I've gone through a lot of abuse – mental, physical, sexual. I do belly breathing because it's hard to control thoughts popping up, but you need to get rid of those things to focus on what you need to get done. I go on a lot of walks throughout the day to think things through, sometimes I'll let the bad thoughts catch me as well sometimes and I'll sit with it and understand it because running and hiding from things can be damaging. Sometimes those things need to be processed and you need to listen to them.An executive is the leader of a company, you have to come up with the ideas that make the money, you have to create a healthy environment for your employees. The best way to do that is to slow your ass down, look at what you have in front of you and come up with the best solution and figure it out. A lot of people make decisions when they're too close to the fire and they get burned, take a step back and look at all the perspectives. Meditation allows you to break things down in painstaking detail.When I have any time to myself, as a Dad of three, I work on my breathing. You can always find a minute in a day to do this, even if it's while you're driving or in the bathroom.The first 27 years of my life was filled with a lot of trauma and abuse. Sports was a safe haven for me and was where I could be happy. It wasn't the healthiest thing, looking back, but it drove me.When I realised that I wasn't feeling better, despite getting all my emotions out on the fiel
In this episode, Nikou introduces season 3 of the podcast by talking to former NFL players Reggie Walker and David Carter about failing forward and how to find your best self through trials, tribulations and adversity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Mental health is something everyone needs to maintain and suffers from from time to time.You become very aware that football carries a 100% injury rate, they tell you in the NFL that it's not an ‘if' thing, it's a ‘when' thing. As soon as you're thinking about not getting injured, that's your time to get out of there, because to do the job you need to be in a very special place.If anything's bothering you, you shouldn't be on the field. With anything other than what's in front of you on your mind you will get hurt, as soon as you hesitate.Any professional coach will tell you that sports are 90% mental and 10% physical. There are some monsters out there that can bench-press the world and can outrun a cheetah, but they'll be cut and out of league next week. The ones that last are the ones who have their mental down, they understand what their strategy is, what their tools are, what their weaknesses are. It's the same in life too.You need to be regimented, you need to know you're putting the best possible product out there. You're competing each and every day, so you need to eat right, manage your relationships in and outside of the building.Sports is all about relationships, the rest of the team could win without me and don't absolutely need me, but I can help to win more. So you have to be a good leader, a good follower, support people, gain their trust. You need to have a set of tools to bring to the game, not just one.There's a lot of weight on you because it's a game of inches and there are 53 players on a team and only 11 on the field. I've seen guys get cut because they were around the guy who made the mistake! Keeping the negativity from the press, the internet and the commentators – I have a special place of dislike for those guys, when you're watching a game, you can't ever tell definitely who made a mistake in a play.When you tell yourself ‘I'm not gonna do this or that' you're kinda telling yourself to actually focus on these things. You need to say ‘I'm doing this solely and nothing else matters'. Meditation helps with that.I've always brought curiosity to what I do and get excited About exploring something different, finding out something new about yourself and seeing where that takes you.It's all about the setup. I've gone through a lot of abuse – mental, physical, sexual. I do belly breathing because it's hard to control thoughts popping up, but you need to get rid of those things to focus on what you need to get done. I go on a lot of walks throughout the day to think things through, sometimes I'll let the bad thoughts catch me as well sometimes and I'll sit with it and understand it because running and hiding from things can be damaging. Sometimes those things need to be processed and you need to listen to them.An executive is the leader of a company, you have to come up with the ideas that make the money, you have to create a healthy environment for your employees. The best way to do that is to slow your ass down, look at what you have in front of you and come up with the best solution and figure it out. A lot of people make decisions when they're too close to the fire and they get burned, take a step back and look at all the perspectives. Meditation allows you to break things down in painstaking detail.When I have any time to myself, as a Dad of three, I work on my breathing. You can always find a minute in a day to do this, even if it's while you're driving or in the bathroom.The first 27 years of my life was filled with a lot of trauma and abuse. Sports was a safe haven for me and was where I could be happy. It wasn't the healthiest thing, looking back, but it drove me.When I realised that I wasn't feeling better, despite getting all my emotions out on the fiel
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