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[00:00:00]So, with that, what's one truth you wish every young athlete, parent, or coach understood about mental performance and personal development development that more most sports psychologists approaches aren't addressing?

[00:00:15]Mhm.

[00:00:18]I think one of the bigger things is that you know, people might advertise themselves or market themselves as kind of this this guru who's going to provide that quick fix of oh, we'll just build resilience and your performance is going to improve by X amount tomorrow or we'll work on confidence and all of a sudden you're going to you're going to hit home runs every game. So, I think that the truth that we need to kind of clear up on is that this isn't going to guarantee increased performance.

[00:00:49]It's not going to be something that happens overnight. Again, I like to equate mental training to to strength training. Like you're not going to put on muscle after going to the gym for three times a week.

[00:01:00]This mental training is is part of your your performance development plan. It's part of your process. It's going to take some time to build. And within that, yes, your performance might improve, but the goal beyond mental performance is how do I actually build the tools, the awareness to to maintain consistency, to seek, you know, marginal gains in my improvement. Um but also beyond that, how do I translate these skills that I take from my performance into my life, into my other aspects of identity? So, learning how to handle stress, handle pressure outside of sport, how to treat others well, how to work with others, how to be an effective leader. Um so, understanding that mental training's not going to be a quick fix.

[00:01:40]It's not going to help you hit a hole-in-one, but it might help you be a better human.