Meet Trevor Ragan, the guest on this week’s Way of Champions Podcast. Trevor is the founder of Train Ugly, and the host of a fantastic podcast called The Learner Lab [link]. This one goes a little over an hour, but we promise it is worth the time! Grab a notebook and a pen, and maybe some coffee or tea. This one is packed with incredible information!   Highlights from the Podcast:

• The most important trait of a great leader: the ability to learn
• How Trevor came up with the name “Train Ugly"
• Helping learners appreciate the pain of messing up to get better
• The difference between a tiger growing up in the zoo or growing up in the jungle
• Trevor shares his story of trying out for Duke Basketball
• Spending two years experiencing the leadership of Mike Krzyzewski
• Why Trevor started his podcast
• Overcoming Fear, Stress and Anxiety
• Things that create fear: Uncertainty, Attention, Change and Struggle
• Practice: Doing vs Reading
• Trevor explains how baseball coaches can improve pregame warm ups
• What is psychological safety and why is it more important than most people know?
• Why sleep is the best performance enhancing drug available

Connect with Trevor Ragan 

• Website: https://trainugly.com/
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @train_ugly
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trainingugly

Resources Mentioned  The Learner Lab [podcast] The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck [book] Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson  [book] The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Dan Coyle [book] How to 'overcome’ fear, a TedTalk with Trevor Ragan [video] Learning Like a Jungle Tiger, a TedTalk with Trevor Ragan [video]   Visit us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ctgprojecthq Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChangingTheGameProject/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ctgprojecthq/ iTunes: http://bit.ly/wocpodcast