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Podcast: High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset
Episode: 27: Embracing the Suck & Thriving Through Adversity: A Conversation with Bernie Holliday, Pittsburgh Pirates' Director of Mental Conditioning
Description: Bernie Holliday is a master of the mental game. At the heart of his interview, is a phrase he has adopted from this work with West Point Cadets: "embracing the suck." Bernie described how professional baseball players must embrace the suck, but also describes how he has used the phrase in his life and career. He believes there are 3 ways people approach times that are difficult: 1) by evading, 2) by enduring, or 3) by embracing. The best of the best approach times that are difficult in the 3rd way: embracing the difficulty. His mantra "BE BOLD" will inspire you to get...