Unlearn16: Class is in Session - February 14, 2023


The One Where I Go To The Super Bowl And Save The World

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The One Where I Tell You My Hat Size, My Secrets AND The Chicken Story The One Where Use The Bully To Change The World

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00:00:00.000 class is in session hey and welcome to unlearn 16 class is in session now if you're watching me on
00:00:11.200 youtube you understand what i'm wearing right now let me describe it for the people just listening
00:00:16.080 i am in a full eagles go-to super bowl gear i'm filming this on sunday i know it's not going to
00:00:23.680 be released till tuesday so you guys won't be able to hear me on tuesday but i'm committing
00:00:27.200 I'm committing a hundred percent to my Philadelphia Eagles. I'm wearing, yes,
00:00:32.360 hockey shoulder pads underneath my Jersey because I'm not a football player and I'm Canadian. So I
00:00:36.940 have hockey football, you know, I have hockey shoulder pads, but I am wearing a Reggie White
00:00:41.960 authentic back in the day Jersey, uh, representing my Philadelphia Eagles. Uh, Anna says she's in a
00:00:49.280 costume ready to go. She's just in red, yellow, and, and white. She keeps calling it a costume.
00:00:55.880 I feel like we're going to get smited by the football gods, but nonetheless.
00:00:59.940 So why am I on here dressed like this?
00:01:03.960 Delusions of football grandeur?
00:01:05.740 Maybe, maybe a little bit.
00:01:07.620 I feel a little tougher.
00:01:09.640 I feel a little stronger.
00:01:11.320 Maybe ready to, you know, take it to the line, so to speak.
00:01:15.980 But what I really want to talk about today while I'm in this gear,
00:01:18.880 while I'm ready, I'm getting ready to go watch this football game,
00:01:22.540 I want to talk about sports.
00:01:24.200 And I want to talk about how essential athletics are for everybody, not just kids, not just teens, not just young adults, but for everybody and what athletics and specifically team sports, which is what I was involved in, brings to the table on your development, on your sense of self, on your sense of team and teamwork and reliance on other people.
00:01:49.760 And I'm going to start, you know, right from the right from the get go, right from the baby, the first step as you kick that ball or throw that ball or throw something your mom told you not to right in that moment.
00:02:03.360 Now, I know a lot of people on here are going to say, Joanna, I hate sports.
00:02:08.080 I'm not a team sport person.
00:02:09.740 I'm an individual sport person or I hate sports altogether.
00:02:12.880 I only run when I'm being chased.
00:02:14.520 I appreciate that logic.
00:02:15.700 But nonetheless, here's what I think.
00:02:17.940 I think sports, first of all, have essential qualities for everybody, regardless if you're
00:02:27.060 good at them. I think what our culture has done is sometimes, and in a lot of ways, if you're not
00:02:32.840 good at something, you're supposed to put the ball down and go the heck home and find something
00:02:37.440 better that you're good at because you're not supposed to keep doing something you stink at.
00:02:41.880 that's my problem with us guys that's my problem with our culture that's my problem with what we
00:02:48.600 teach young people I don't think we should walk away from something because we're not good at it
00:02:56.380 I think a lot of people and a lot of adults who don't like sports specifically team sports
00:03:01.560 they don't like them because they weren't necessarily you know Michael Jordan out on
00:03:06.660 the court. They don't like them because of how they felt when they stunk at it. And then what
00:03:12.920 kind of feedback they got in that moment and how they got that back. I think that says a lot.
00:03:19.980 Now, also understand that I'm highly competitive. I love competition. I love going all in. I love
00:03:28.480 really high caliber sport. I played to the highest caliber I possibly could given my 5'6 and kind of
00:03:35.460 weak upper body strength, limitations. I was always a good player, a decent player. I felt
00:03:44.440 myself to be a good leader, but I wasn't naturally born with the gift of all. I sure as heck didn't
00:03:51.220 have the body type in order to really excel. To be honest, when I was young, and this is going for
00:03:58.420 a lot of young girls, there wasn't necessarily the infrastructure and the foundation
00:04:05.160 and the facility to push me into that world.
00:04:10.440 Even now, I don't feel as though it exists.
00:04:13.580 It doesn't.
00:04:14.080 It doesn't exist the way it exists for boys.
00:04:16.560 I don't care where you're sitting. 0.94
00:04:18.200 I understand we have the WNBA.
00:04:20.200 I understand Canadian women's hockey team 1.00
00:04:22.360 kicks butt every single place they go. 1.00
00:04:25.040 But this isn't necessarily a goal for women. 1.00
00:04:32.640 Why? 1.00
00:04:33.120 Well, because we don't get paid.
00:04:35.160 There's no million dollar NFL standing in the wings or the hockey league or the baseball league. 1.00
00:04:41.800 All of these leagues, we don't have necessarily leagues that are female dominated, that are women's leagues.
00:04:50.700 And I'm going to go you one step further.
00:04:52.520 I even think in some capacities, women can play to this sort of level, regardless of it being men or women.
00:05:01.360 I'm not saying on the football.
00:05:02.360 I understand the football field is a little bit of a different scenario. 0.88
00:05:06.520 Having said that, I've met a lot of women that most men wouldn't want to stand across that line from.
00:05:11.480 But the reality is we still don't have that push.
00:05:15.720 We still don't have the best coaches.
00:05:19.020 We don't have the best trainers.
00:05:20.900 We don't have the best culture to be pushing.
00:05:23.240 And then that's true across the board.
00:05:25.560 So whoever you are, if you're not necessarily instantaneously good,
00:05:30.300 They don't think you're going to be this huge superstar player.
00:05:33.200 You don't get that push.
00:05:34.800 And when you don't get that push, you should get that push out the door and then you lose.
00:05:39.560 And then you lose on what a team has to offer.
00:05:44.480 And for women, even though it's changing, and I know everybody's going to say, Joanna,
00:05:47.860 because it's way different than it was when I was a kid, right?
00:05:50.960 There was like one hockey ice time, and that's in Canada, for the love of God,
00:05:55.260 four young girls when I was a kid.
00:05:57.520 It was like 5 a.m.
00:05:58.880 That was it. One time, period. And so all of that is changing and that's fantastic. But the shift that needs to happen, in my opinion, is the need and is the spiritual requirement of people belonging to a team.
00:06:19.840 And I don't care what team it is.
00:06:21.540 I don't care in what fashion.
00:06:23.640 But there is something unique about going full out with a group of people that have your back no matter what.
00:06:34.920 That when you get in trouble, they're on your left.
00:06:37.940 That when you get hurt, they pick you up.
00:06:40.900 That when you don't have a good game, they build you back up.
00:06:44.520 When you have a great game, they carry you off the field on their shoulders.
00:06:47.840 Guys, doesn't everybody want to be a part of that? Doesn't that sound like a beautiful way? If we're going to indoctrinate, if we're going to make kids experience things with value, isn't there an incredible value in that?
00:07:05.520 Isn't there this amazing space where kids get to understand what that dynamic feels like?
00:07:14.740 Right.
00:07:15.360 And so when people constantly, oh, we're so much of a participation ribbon, listen, there's a difference.
00:07:21.860 But I, again, I'm very competitive.
00:07:23.580 There's a difference between being so incredibly competitive that you chirp and bully the kid right off the team that can't cut it.
00:07:32.040 And then the other extreme where you're handing out participation ribbons, doesn't matter what you do.
00:07:38.540 Does everybody understand there's a middle ground there?
00:07:41.120 And I think the middle ground, I would love to reach it on many levels, but I'm going to use sport to reach it here.
00:07:47.660 And I often say this in my classroom.
00:07:51.700 I don't care what the end result was.
00:07:55.720 What I care about is the effort, the dedication, the blood, sweat, and tears you put out in order to get that.
00:08:07.200 So that applies to academics, that applies to jobs, that applies to the amazing kids shoveling my driveway, and that applies to in a real, real way.
00:08:16.660 And it's tangible on the field or on the court.
00:08:21.400 Did you leave it all on the field?
00:08:23.200 do you come off the field or the court sweating buckets right your elbow hurts because you dove
00:08:31.420 for that ball your knee hurts because you got in the way of that kick is it all out there
00:08:36.300 because if you've left it all on the court or all on the field or all on the pitch 0.88
00:08:42.840 in my opinion that's the lesson and i'm telling you right now that's not about a damn participation 0.96
00:08:51.000 ribbon. So when, when groups of people like to, you know, make individuals feel like crap who 0.98
00:08:57.740 don't necessarily have the skill, but go all in, they're morons. Because it's the going all in 1.00
00:09:05.380 that we need to encourage. It's the, listen, there's certain skills you need to learn for
00:09:11.600 certain sports. And then there's some sports you can just muscle, muscle through, right? Football
00:09:16.160 is probably one of them you can leave it all out there and you can muscle through and you can give
00:09:22.640 all your effort knowing full well that your skill set might not be you know in the top 10 yet yet
00:09:32.800 but when i watch a kid give all that they got in that capacity that is a mentality
00:09:41.360 that is a an amazing sort of character building moment and isn't this what we're supposed to be
00:09:50.700 doing with kids i i get it we all want to win absolutely nobody wants to lose but the character
00:09:58.760 and everybody says this and every top performing athlete says this right you have michael jordan
00:10:05.340 who has bounced off his high school basketball team. Keep that in mind. It's not the bottom
00:10:11.240 line skill. It is how hard are you willing to work? How much are you willing to put in?
00:10:18.540 Not everybody's going to the NBA, but that doesn't matter. That's not the lesson.
00:10:23.200 The lesson is what are you willing to do in order to make whatever event the best? And then there's
00:10:31.760 the team aspect, right? Because if you have one kid doing that, it's impressive. Or adult for
00:10:37.680 that matter. I think adults need to learn this, you know, pretty much as quickly as children do,
00:10:43.340 probably more so. But if you give your all and you're one kid, and then all of a sudden your
00:10:50.520 teammate sees what you're doing. So guess what? They up their ante and another teammate sees it.
00:10:56.940 And a kid on the bench who still hasn't even made it on the field says, I'm going to bust my ass in practice like that. I'm going to work that much harder. Not because necessarily do I think I'm as good as yet, yet, but I'll be damned if I let where I sit today dictate where I'm going to sit for my entire future. 0.92
00:11:19.900 And when my team needs me to do anything, I will be ready to take it to them. I will be ready to
00:11:28.300 step on the field. I will be ready to do whatever I need to do to make us better. Isn't that the
00:11:36.780 lesson? If we all thought like that and felt like that and made sure that the kids, when they're
00:11:46.420 young feel like that when they're on whatever team inspires them, isn't that the character
00:11:52.120 trait that's going to change the world? Because I'll tell you, probably, I mean, I played sports
00:11:57.800 my whole life. I started in baseball, then I shifted to volleyball, and then eventually I
00:12:01.480 got to rugby. Now I'm five foot six, I weigh a buck 20 soaking wet. Did I hit the gym and pump?
00:12:08.100 No, come on now. Did I try to be real fast? People didn't kill me? Yes, yes, I did. Was I decent
00:12:14.340 on a team that actually I played with five or six national team players that played for Canada.
00:12:24.300 When I was playing with them, did I ever think, oh, my skill's not high enough. I should just
00:12:29.640 hang up the cleats and call it a day? No. And let's be honest, some of that is delusions of
00:12:34.740 grandeur in my head. But the other part of it is, and I know I've talked about this on this podcast
00:12:39.960 before. The other part of it is I learned at a very young age. I'm not necessarily naturally
00:12:45.380 inclined in the best at everything that I do, but what I have is a work ethic and a dedication
00:12:51.260 to the people that are standing next to me to be the best possible whatever I can be in order to
00:12:59.320 make that team better. So when I got to rugby, and I'll tell you a little story, and I got to rugby,
00:13:05.260 I was playing for the Toronto Scottish, and I hadn't played in a while. I graduated university
00:13:09.180 And I realized I missed that team dynamic. I missed that blood, sweat and tears, the camaraderie, the just the fact I'm on your left.
00:13:19.480 That's all I need to say. Right. For an athlete, you understand what that means.
00:13:23.760 And so I go to play with the Toronto Scottish. Now, the Toronto Scottish is a team that was packed with people like Maureen McMahon, Tamara Curtis, Ara Bacinto.
00:13:33.280 I mean, these women, Dallas, these women played for Canada, and they're amazing.
00:13:41.540 I didn't know any of these women when I started for the Toronto Scottish.
00:13:44.080 One of my friends says, Joe, come on out, play rugby with us.
00:13:46.840 Amazing.
00:13:47.440 I come out, I show up that day, and what are we doing?
00:13:50.240 We are doing rugby field suicides.
00:13:54.180 Why?
00:13:54.640 Because it was conditioning time for the Toronto Scottish.
00:13:57.100 Heaven help me.
00:13:57.860 Was I in shape?
00:13:59.020 No.
00:13:59.720 No, I wasn't.
00:14:00.740 I wasn't even close to being in shape.
00:14:03.280 Um, but I was out there and my goal was, okay, I'm not in shape. We're doing conditioning, Joe.
00:14:09.660 All you're going to do is you're going to keep up with the girl next to you. The woman, I'm sure.
00:14:14.540 So I looked at her, introduced myself. She introduced, I have no idea who she is.
00:14:18.800 I said, amazing. I'm going to keep up to you. We start doing suicides. For those who don't
00:14:23.860 understand what a suicide is, you go about a quarter of the field, touch the line, come back
00:14:28.940 to the baseline, go half to the field, come back three quarters, come back, go all the way down,
00:14:34.620 come back. It's like a gym suicide on a rugby pitch. Okay. We did 7,000 of them. I don't
00:14:42.920 remember. And I kept up to the girl to my right. And every time she pulled up ahead, I pulled up
00:14:48.300 a little more. Now, could I have been breaking my soul at this particular? Yes. Yes. It was the,
00:14:53.840 I thought I was going to die. Absolutely die. But what amazes me is what that inner
00:15:01.060 person, that inner, you just have, just keep up with that person. Just a little bit harder,
00:15:08.000 just a little bit more. And I think that's also what makes us great. I know a lot of people are
00:15:11.780 like, you have to have the inner strength to make you great. I get it. I get it. I get it. But it
00:15:15.040 doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt to be standing beside people you respect and measuring yourself
00:15:22.320 by somebody who's just a little better than you. I always wanted to play sports. People who were
00:15:28.220 better than me, want to know why? Because it brought out the best of me. I got better. I
00:15:32.260 watched, I learned, I got better. I tried to keep up. So at the end of this, when I thought I was
00:15:36.720 going to die and I almost threw up, I, you know, shook hands with everybody who was there. They
00:15:42.000 welcomed me to the team. My friend Shelly pulled me over. She goes, dude, how did you do that? I
00:15:47.160 said, do what? I said, I'm going to die. She goes, you kept up with Maureen McMahon the entire time. 0.75
00:15:53.240 Maureen McMahon, by the way, was the captain of the Canadian rugby team sevens at the time.
00:15:58.300 She's like, she is fitness. She should be on a magazine. She is the most fit person on the team.
00:16:05.820 She played eight. She insane. And I'm like, oh my God. And my friend's like, dude, you just made 1.00
00:16:11.740 some great impressions. And I'm like, I'm going to, this is when I die, by the way.
00:16:17.640 But what I saw and what is cool about rugby, and I do like it about football, even though I've
00:16:23.860 never played football. I'm Canadian and it's just not a big thing up here. When you're on a rugby
00:16:29.300 pitch, and I don't mean to demean war, but it feels like you go to battle, right? It feels like
00:16:34.680 you go to battle. It is a sport where you hit and get hit. You have no equipment except for a mouth
00:16:42.300 guard for crying out loud. And every chance you're going to go down, you're going to get hit. You
00:16:49.240 have one of your teammates, if you have good teammates, and they're on your left. And they're
00:16:54.500 on the left to take the ball or they're on left to ruck over top of you. They're on left to push
00:16:59.740 the ball further to make sure you're protected, to make sure you get covered. And when people ask
00:17:06.100 my favorite sport, I say it's rugby. Did I get hurt sometimes? Sure. There was a woman that hit
00:17:13.060 me that if I closed my eyes, she played for the national team too. I can still feel how painful
00:17:18.500 it was. But you know what's interesting about great players? They didn't injure you. They just
00:17:22.720 hurt you. You just felt like you hit a cement wall, but somehow didn't break a bone. Nothing
00:17:28.020 got torn. Nothing got pulled. You just, you know, that's what hitting one of the gods must feel
00:17:34.140 like. And you go, okay, I don't want to do that again. Next time I'm not going to try to sidestep
00:17:38.540 her. I'll handle it differently. And then you get better and then you get better. And then you
00:17:44.680 recognize that these women on this pitch will do whatever it takes to back you, whatever it takes
00:17:54.080 to support you. So guess what you do? You do it more and you go harder and you see when they're
00:18:01.320 in trouble and you're on their left, you have their back. If anybody doesn't understand on
00:18:07.720 your left, for the love of God, please watch an Avengers movie, Winter Soldier, Captain America,
00:18:12.460 something. And all of this being said, it's amazing on the pitch and it's amazing in sport
00:18:19.440 And it's amazing when you win titles and you win championships.
00:18:23.280 But what it's taught me, I think, it's all transferable, truly transferable.
00:18:29.920 Because if you're on my team in life, and I feel like most people are on my team, you
00:18:35.420 understand what I mean by that?
00:18:36.940 I got your left.
00:18:38.880 I'm on your left.
00:18:40.400 And I will back you and support you.
00:18:43.100 But what I will do and what I demand from everybody around me is that everything we do, you do it to your 100%. You do it until you can't go anymore. You do it until your body is done. Your mind is done. You've got no more steps. You've got no more throws. You've got no more tackles to give.
00:19:05.920 And if you do that, if we all do that, and we do that together, there's absolutely nothing we can't accomplish.
00:19:15.320 Isn't that a character trait?
00:19:17.120 Isn't that what we want to teach our kids? 1.00
00:19:19.140 So when these morons are going around talking about, oh, it's just a participation ribbon, or unless you win, you're just garbage, they don't understand the point. 1.00
00:19:30.380 Truly don't understand the point. 1.00
00:19:31.940 They've obviously never seen Rudy, for the love of God, which is, by the way, one of my favorite boobies of all time.
00:19:37.720 They don't understand the point of what is truly heroic.
00:19:43.900 Isn't the player that is naturally the best putting on the best performance?
00:19:49.000 I'm impressed. You're amazing.
00:19:50.580 It's the player. It's the player that knows they're not the best.
00:19:55.340 It's the player that understands that in the grand scheme of things, they're never getting paid millions of dollars to do this.
00:20:02.700 They're not necessarily making that starting line.
00:20:05.640 But when they step foot on the playing field, they give 100% of who they are and what they got until they're no longer on that field anymore.
00:20:17.320 Those are the heroes.
00:20:19.300 Those are the Rudies.
00:20:21.240 Michael Jordan could have walked away from the sport of basketball, called it a day. 0.99
00:20:24.640 right high school he gets bounced off he could have been done he wasn't you have all sorts of
00:20:31.640 examples of athletes who and you have quote after cliched quote where it you know very rocky it
00:20:39.100 doesn't it doesn't matter how hard you punch it has it matters how hard you get punched and still
00:20:44.100 keep coming back and still keep standing up well that's what matters and so when I talk about
00:20:50.900 athletics. That's, and heaven help me, I have to teach gym, but that's what I want to teach.
00:20:58.460 That's what I want to teach. That is inspirational. And it doesn't matter if you're playing football
00:21:03.500 or you're building a company or you're teaching, whatever it is you're doing, your goal is to leave
00:21:10.060 it all on the field and is to be that team. That's inspirational and that's amazing and that's
00:21:17.060 going to change everything. So no, I'm not giving a pat on the head for just standing on the pitch.
00:21:23.640 That's not what the pat deserves, right? You don't get a participation ribbon for not giving
00:21:30.720 it 100%. But you sure as hell should get accolades, get carried off the field when they know
00:21:38.240 you've stepped out there and done everything you seriously could have done, especially
00:21:43.620 naturally when your skill set doesn't come naturally, or is it so incredibly evolved?
00:21:49.820 I talk about this with my students all the time. And we talk about how education, in my opinion,
00:21:55.300 should be bettered. And one of the ways I think it should be bettered is this.
00:22:00.320 We should stop forcing kids or allowing kids to drop courses they aren't naturally great at
00:22:11.160 by saying, oh, well, you're not good at this.
00:22:13.340 So just focus on what you're good at.
00:22:15.900 To me, that's not teaching the most important thing about life
00:22:20.700 because you will come a time where you're up against it,
00:22:23.120 even in the thing you're great at.
00:22:24.960 And if you've never learned to struggle and overcome,
00:22:28.180 if you've never learned to start at the bottom,
00:22:31.240 if you've never learned to watch somebody else get it with such ease
00:22:35.000 and you have to struggle,
00:22:37.120 you're not getting what life is truly about.
00:22:41.160 and you will never, you will never be as great as you could have been. You know, so the kids
00:22:47.860 that hate math, they drop it as soon as they can. Done. Why? Well, because we've made everything
00:22:52.380 about marks. Get the grades. If you don't get the grades, drop the class because if you're getting
00:22:57.960 a 52, you stink at it. Don't work at it anymore. Be embarrassed by it. No, screw that. How hard
00:23:03.060 did you work for the 52? Did you bust your ass for the 52? Did you try? Did you get extra help? 1.00
00:23:08.920 did you go home and do it again and again and again, then for the love of God, I am more proud
00:23:15.360 of that 52 than a kid who got 92 and it just comes easy. Let's elevate that in school. Let's find a
00:23:24.560 way to elevate the idea that a kid can do something, an individual can do something that they're not
00:23:30.960 great at, become better. Maybe never great, maybe never great, but they become better.
00:23:36.680 they can't play an instrument oh don't ever don't ever pick up an instrument no forget that music is
00:23:43.740 a music is one of those things that is universal universal and now we've translated into do you do
00:23:51.140 it well and if you do it well cool keep doing if you don't put it down walk away why why find
00:23:59.360 something about it that inspires you because if you can find that then you can get better
00:24:04.820 My problem is we've really messed up with inspiration and whether a kid likes something
00:24:10.760 and we assume they don't like it because they don't want to do it.
00:24:15.100 That's not the truth.
00:24:17.080 Most people don't want to do things they're not good at because they're not getting supported
00:24:22.140 and they're not getting encouraged and they're not getting pushed to get better at it.
00:24:28.180 They have no cheer section.
00:24:29.740 We all need a cheer section.
00:24:30.920 If you're going to say you're an island, stop it right now.
00:24:32.880 No, you're not.
00:24:33.400 Everybody needs that support system, especially when we're kids.
00:24:37.960 And to cut it off because you're not getting an A is cutting off a part of your person,
00:24:43.820 who you are.
00:24:45.600 Music is a part of everybody.
00:24:48.040 Science is a part of everybody.
00:24:49.980 Art, history, English, physics, computer.
00:24:55.480 This is, we all, every single person on this planet can have an avenue that they want to
00:25:02.340 go down, that inspires them, that intrigues them, that they want to understand in every single
00:25:08.360 discipline. How dare we minimize what kids can go after and how they go after it based on the
00:25:15.640 number beside their name? If they're giving it their all. And again, you're in my classroom.
00:25:22.760 I am never giving you a pat on the back when I know you didn't. Nope. I give you the pat on the
00:25:28.700 back for the character, for your strength, for how hard did you work? And if you're leaving it
00:25:36.400 all on the pitch, then I'm on your left. I'm giving you parades and accolades to the best
00:25:45.460 of my ability. Could you imagine if we did that in this world? Could you imagine how much better
00:25:53.000 we would be? How much more well-rounded we would be? I teach my kids about the Renaissance and the
00:25:58.380 whole idea of the renaissance person yeah i changed that from renaissance man and i missed that how the
00:26:04.500 hell did we go away from that when when did somebody say you shouldn't have a breadth of
00:26:11.980 knowledge you shouldn't be a well-rounded individual we we've channeled people into things
00:26:19.820 they are great at and that's the only thing you can ever do what a waste of human potential
00:26:26.180 because even the thing you're great at, even that thing, it is likely to be inspired and
00:26:34.660 push you to a higher level of understanding if you have a greater breadth of everything else
00:26:41.040 that goes on in this world. Music and math are connected. Art and science and history are
00:26:48.460 connected. The more we try to disconnect these things and turn us all into tiny little narrow
00:26:54.920 tunnel-visioned individuals that only are on this planet to do one thing, the less human we become.
00:27:03.780 And we see that all derived from sport. From the time where you feel like, did you leave it all on
00:27:10.820 the pitch? And I left it on the pitch, but I didn't make that final goal, but my whole team backed me.
00:27:16.840 My whole team saw what I did and how hard I did it. And that's all I got.
00:27:22.840 And I haven't even begun to talk about mental toughness that comes with athletics.
00:27:30.180 You know, the moments in athletics where it's going like at 100% and everybody's full tilt,
00:27:35.820 those aren't the times of being tested. You want to know the time of being tested?
00:27:40.240 Every athlete knows it's the quiet time. It's the moment before the serve. It's the moment before
00:27:46.320 the snap it's the moment as you're about to take as you're about to receive uh a serve you know
00:27:56.480 it's the quiet time right before you make that pitch all of that quiet time when you have to have
00:28:04.960 a hundred percent control over your thought in order to make the play the pitch the whatever
00:28:14.320 great nobody talks about that right that's power we talk about it all the time we talk about
00:28:22.960 meditating and we talk about you know manifesting and all those things what do you think athletes
00:28:28.320 are doing when you do it right when you have control over your thoughts in order to make
00:28:36.480 sure your head doesn't mess up your play when you're not running on autopilot and that moment
00:28:44.320 where where your thoughts can make or break the next thing that happens oh my god why aren't we
00:28:51.360 talking about this more and i know some people are deep in the hallways of sports psychology
00:28:56.240 and on the most elite level teams why aren't we talking about to grade sevens
00:29:02.320 why aren't we talking about it to our youth who need that who need to understand why that's so
00:29:09.200 important how sports ties into their brains and their mental health not just for getting physical
00:29:15.040 activity which is an obvious benefit but it's all of that mental control and all of that mental
00:29:24.960 activity that you have to go through that you have to mitigate and balance that's where the power is
00:29:33.840 that's where the interest is and that's where the transferable skills are to everything else
00:29:39.440 you are going to do in this world we talk about standing up in front of a room number one fear of
00:29:46.400 everybody's public speaking why it's not because you don't know your stuff it's because your
00:29:52.240 thoughts have decided that it is too terrifying that you're not going to get the job done and you
00:29:59.520 can't control your thoughts. The minute we can teach kids how to control their thoughts,
00:30:04.600 guess how much they can stand up front of the room every day, all day, it doesn't matter.
00:30:08.940 Why? Because they control what needs to be controlled. They put in 100% of their work, 0.96
00:30:15.140 and then that standing in front of people, that's about controlling your headspace.
00:30:20.300 And that's what athletics teaches you. Now, do I think there's huge, I guess,
00:30:25.960 benefits of individual athletics? Of course I do. Of course I do. They just never were my thing.
00:30:32.200 So I can't speak to them the way that I speak about what it feels like to be on a team.
00:30:36.720 For me, and I think people are different, but for me, my motivation sure was winning,
00:30:42.920 but it was being on their left. It was making sure that I did what I needed to do to be a part of
00:30:48.560 that team, to elevate that team, to make that team more powerful. And I think in the world,
00:30:54.140 the way society works, in my opinion, we're all on a team. Hopefully we're all on very big teams,
00:31:01.940 multiple teams, lots of teams, every single place we go. The notion that we're just sitting in our
00:31:07.080 house doing it all on our own and never actually having to understand what that dynamic feels like,
00:31:11.860 it doesn't seem very real to me. I understand we have to learn how to be independent. We have to
00:31:17.780 learn how to get things done on our own? Sure. Sure. And there's aspects about all of that in
00:31:23.820 team sports as well. So my goal is simple. I think that this idea of a sport and this idea
00:31:33.860 about winning and losing and participation ribbons and all of the stuff that's going on in the media,
00:31:39.040 it needs to be turned on its head. It needs to be turned on its head. And the only one thing,
00:31:44.440 the only thing we need to talk to kids about, teens, adults, did you leave it all on the field?
00:31:54.480 Is it everything you could have done, you could have possibly prepped for,
00:31:59.060 you could have possibly pushed yourself to the limits? Is everything on that pitch?
00:32:05.600 And if the answer is yes, then I always got your left. Thanks for hanging out with me today. And
00:32:13.040 hopefully while I'm wearing my Eagles jersey on Tuesday morning when this airs, it is a victorious
00:32:19.700 jersey. But if it isn't, I know they would have left it all on the pitch. Have a great week, guys.
00:32:25.880 I will see you next Tuesday. Same bat time, same bat station. Dismissed.