UC Berkeley Rugby Coach Jack Clark on Team Building, Culture, Honesty
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
This conversation is with UC Berkeley rugby coach Jack Clark on team, culture, honesty.
Jack is the iconic rugby coach at the University of California. His team-building abilities are considered legendary within university circles and throughout the corporate sector.
Since becoming head coach of the Golden Bears in 1984, Clark has led the rugby program to 29 national collegiate championships.
In 2000, Clark was chosen as one of Cal’s Ten Most Influential Sports Figures of the 20th Century.
Not only has Jack sustained an improbable level of success for nearly 3 decades, but he’s not the slightest bit sick of what he does.
In Jack’s words, “I really wouldn’t trade jobs with anyone. I mean anyone.”
Jack has so much to share in this conversation.
Everything from how he brings out the best in his players to how he scales culture to why his players are getting their unofficial PHD in team.
This is a phenomenal conversation and you may have to listen to it multiple times to truly soak up all of Jack’s insights.
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to believe that our players are getting the unofficial PhD in team. |
| 0:06.3 | They're getting a really an acute understanding of team. |
| 0:10.4 | You know, they know what a good teammate looks like and the effect that they can have. |
| 0:16.4 | They know what a bad teammate is, unvareably, right? |
| 0:19.5 | I mean, these young people are, they're past, past you know the 10,000 hours 10 year moment I mean |
| 0:26.0 | they're they're becoming an expert in team and especially if we if we make that |
| 0:31.8 | that's what we're doing here and it's going to help us win some |
| 0:34.6 | rugby games but at the end of the day that's the thing that is going to be you |
| 0:40.1 | know the takeaway. All right, |
| 0:44.0 | welcome back or welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast, I'm Michael Jervais. |
| 0:55.4 | And the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are switched on, people |
| 0:59.8 | who are on the path of mastery who have committed their life efforts to understand the nuances of their |
| 1:04.7 | craft and in return understand the nuances of what it means to be human. |
| 1:09.8 | We also want to explore the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft and |
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