625: High Performance Life with Derin McMains
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The world of professional athletes and the concept of your body being your business, with its performance directly linked to your paycheck is completely outside of anything most of us have experienced. For most of us, we wake up to a to-do list of tasks, and it’s unclear if we’re winning or losing, what the score is, or whether anyone is even keeping score. My guest on this week’s podcast shares how he’s taken his experiences as a professional baseball player off the field and into office life.
Listen and learn
- How to find a flow state in your work
- Why you need a clear goal and to push outside your comfort zone
- The importance of finding your “why” at work
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Derin McMains is a former professional baseball player who was drafted in the eleventh round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft by the San Francisco Giants. He spent six seasons in the Giants’ minor league system, earning the Harry S. Jordan Award for the Giants’ best spring training rookie in 2006. Currently, he serves as the Director of Mental Conditioning at ReliaQuest, a cybersecurity company.
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| 0:00.0 | The world of professional sports is completely foreign to most of us. The idea that your body is your business, |
| 0:07.0 | your physical performance on the field turns into a paycheck, |
| 0:11.0 | maybe cheering fans in the stands or maybe booze or both. |
| 0:15.0 | It's all very mysterious what has always attracted me about sports. |
| 0:19.4 | I never had any aspirations or capacity, |
| 0:22.4 | but this idea of being on a team that sounds amazing this idea of having a coach |
| 0:26.2 | who tells you what to do that sounds great a scoreboard a very clear scoreboard did we win or lose will I make |
| 0:35.0 | the MVP list or not? That sounds great. |
| 0:36.5 | If you're like me, a knowledge worker, |
| 0:38.9 | we wake up every morning and stare at a blank screen |
| 0:41.9 | or in my case, I look at a clipboard with a piece of white paper on it and I write down a to-do list and attempt to create my own scoreboard and that's a lot of pressure and a lot of responsibility and at the end of the day when I close my |
| 0:54.0 | laptop it's not so clear to me whether I'm winning, whether I've won, whether I'm even on the right track |
| 0:59.8 | or I'm aiming in the right direction. |
| 1:01.8 | My guest on this week's podcast is a former professional baseball player turned coach. |
| 1:06.0 | Hopefully he'll give us some insights how we can apply some of the learning from professional |
| 1:09.8 | sports to our everyday lives. |
| 1:12.0 | If you're new here, I'm Lucas Rockwood. I'm the host of the show. I'm a |
| 1:15.2 | yoga teacher and trainer, a serial entrepreneur, I'm the father of three kids, but firstly I'm |
| 1:19.3 | a student I like to learn things. So I find authors and experts and coaches like this week and I attempt |
| 1:24.5 | to bring their work here on the show so we can live more informed and inspired lives. |
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| 1:33.4 | helps people to find the show if you have questions for me for the show message me |
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