Mental toughness

Before we wrap up, I wanted to see if there is anything additional that you would like to mention to our listeners here in India, as well as worldwide, or if there is anything else that I missed.

I think the only thing I would leave you with is what I kind of leave every podcast with is the way that I think about mental skills and like mental performance and mental strength.

If you want to think of it that way is, you know, a lot of our physical and physiological capabilities like you just brought up are pretty genetic or related to how young we were introduced to the sport or related to our resources.

But the psychological piece, like no one has an advantage over anyone else.

Like if it's a little Venn diagram, they all kind of overlap in my mind.

And so back to like ABA, I thought, well, mental strength isn't just a personality trait that you either have or don't have.

Like, I don't want to ask that and have Leslie, you know, a lot of times she'll say like, oh, I don't have this.

Or she used to, I'm going to say she used to say that, right? Like I don't have this or, oh, I'm not mentally strong.

And I'm like, well, maybe she'll say I'm not mentally strong yet.

And I was like, no, I think what I can do is break it down and say, hey, there are behaviors involved.

And so if something has certain skills and behavior, then obviously you can hack it with ABA, right? So mental strength to me doesn't mean that you never get upset.

Like you guys said, it doesn't mean that you're always confident.

When he's not coaching or training, you'll find him in the great outdoors with his wife and kids, investing in the relationship that matters the most.

We're going to talk about, you know, a subject that I love, that's self-confidence and mental toughness.

So please join me in welcoming my guest, Sean McManus.

Sean, so happy to have you on today.

And that changes from that calling that's rooted in your deep faith in what...

You need to be a servant leader.

So what role does mental toughness play in trusting God and, you know, just putting it in his hands enough to make that bold, uncomfortable leap?

I think it plays a really big part.

And I even find it at Mountain Tough.

Like Mountain Tough is a physical, mental toughness training organization.

We have this incredible human performance facility right across this wall.

And we have...

That at a certain point in time lost all their physical capability.

And so, you know, the the most extreme example of that is if if you had someone destined to like a wheelchair the rest of their life.

they still have an ability to be like an extremely great man and and a great warrior and how they lead and how they inspire and encourage others and it's like that is almost like the top of the mountain of mental toughness is that because when you can't rely on the physical capabilities anymore then what do you turn to and those are always the stories that really inspire me

Yeah, it's like when wisdom becomes your superpower.