Sep 21, 2026 · 3 min · 1 segments
What does it really mean to be mentally tough? In sports, athletes are taught to be resilient, stay composed under pressure, and push through adversity. But sometimes, the expectation to always be…
No entities detected.
And actually boredom is a luxury and someone is to actually be bored because that's where creativity happens.
So one just moved to Europe to play pro volleyball and she just got there and she's feeling anxious.
And I was like, good, like find other things other than your sports that give you joy and fulfillment, because that's the problem is these kids are getting, I believe, like, I think of it as a, the foundation of a house and we're putting all the pressure on one pillar and expecting that pillar to provide all all of the reward for the entire building and they're no longer having hobbies or having part time jobs or getting to spend time with friends or getting to be bored.
would I do with my time if I had the luxury of having an extra three hours? And that's causing a lot of this anxiety around The kids seeing, OK, I've got and this is the kids I think that are now the ones I'm working with that are now in college who are like looking over their shoulder about, well, I used to be this and I'm not going to be that.
I'm not I'm not as good as I was because and the stories start going and the lack starts building up.
And I also think despair, right? Like when you actually start facing some adversity in your sport, which you're inevitably going to do.
If it is the only thing that you got going on, right? I love this example of the foundation of a house.
If it's the only thing you got going on, like, yeah, of course your life is going to be destroyed.
You're going to feel depression, whatever it might be, because you have nothing to hold you up.
And it's kind of like, I feel like it's hard to get that message across to athletes sometimes because it feels counterintuitive when you're struggling in your sport and you're like, I want to get better.
And actually boredom is a luxury and someone is to actually be bored because that's where creativity happens.
So one just moved to Europe to play pro volleyball and she just got there and she's feeling anxious.
And I was like, good, like find other things other than your sports that give you joy and fulfillment, because that's the problem is these kids are getting, I believe, like, I think of it as a, the foundation of a house and we're putting all the pressure on one pillar and expecting that pillar to provide all all of the reward for the entire building and they're no longer having hobbies or having part time jobs or getting to spend time with friends or getting to be bored.
would I do with my time if I had the luxury of having an extra three hours? And that's causing a lot of this anxiety around The kids seeing, OK, I've got and this is the kids I think that are now the ones I'm working with that are now in college who are like looking over their shoulder about, well, I used to be this and I'm not going to be that.
I'm not I'm not as good as I was because and the stories start going and the lack starts building up.
And I also think despair, right? Like when you actually start facing some adversity in your sport, which you're inevitably going to do.
If it is the only thing that you got going on, right? I love this example of the foundation of a house.
If it's the only thing you got going on, like, yeah, of course your life is going to be destroyed.
You're going to feel depression, whatever it might be, because you have nothing to hold you up.
And it's kind of like, I feel like it's hard to get that message across to athletes sometimes because it feels counterintuitive when you're struggling in your sport and you're like, I want to get better.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.