How To Actually Have An Elite Mindset

A lot of people are obsessed with how athletes think. We ask them in interviews and things like that, how do you handle doubt? How do you handle work ethic? Because we are looking at our lives and we struggle with all of these things, right? So today, what we're going to do is listen to an what an

athlete says and break down the psychological mechanism of what they're doing, why it works, and how to implement it. Let's start with one of the greats of all time, Michael Jordan. >> Leroy Smith. He started the whole process for me because when he made the team and I didn't, I wanted to prove not

just to Leroy Smith, not just to myself, but to the coach who actually picked Leroy over me. I wanted to make sure you understood you made a mistake, dude. >> So, Michael Jordan is notorious for trying to prove other people wrong and taking things personally. And this is where I'm going to start out of the gate

by saying I think this is a nonoptimal strategy. Okay. So, generally speaking, I think when we talk about performance, I advocate for like an egoless approach. I advocate for trying not to prove things to other people. And why is that? So, if I think I'm better than you, right? I want to prove to you that I'm

the best. So, I'm going to practice really hard and I'm going to show up and we're going to compete and then what if I lose, right? What what does what impact does that have? If I put all my eggs into the basket of I am better than you. I will prove to you that you are

wrong and I am right and I work really hard but you're also working really hard and maybe you're better at it than I am and then what happens if I lose? So I've worked with a lot of people who are very outcome oriented. I want to get straight A's. I want to be number one. I want to