Former National Water Polo Player, 4x SEA Games Gold Medalist, Entrepreneur and Managing Director of his own agency Splash Productions.
Jerome Lau is an ex-teammate of mine, drinking buddy, and dear friend. Hear from Jerome as he talks about the tremendous pressure every Water Polo player faced from having to maintain the then undefeated SEA Games Gold medal; the important support he received from his parents and how this has shaped his parenting style with his son who now also plays the sport; and how water polo has given him important skills to build and lead his team as an entrepreneur.
1.05 Introduction of Splash Productions
2.05 Expansion plans for the business
2.55 Water Polo career
3.21 More about his journey into the sport of water polo
7.03 Why did he stay on when his friends stopped training
7.45 What sort of support did he get from people around him
8.55 Motivation from support from parents
9.30 Emotional moment
10.00 Bonding with parents over them coming to support at training sessions
11.15 How this has translated to the way he support his son in sport
12.35 What is the sort of pressure from sport?
12.45 Personal pressure
14.10 Pressure from Singapore
14.36 Applying understanding of pressure to other areas of life
15.00 Pressure comes everyday
15.30 No stress from work can compare to the stress from the SEA Games
16.29 Being able to identify stress in teammates
16.39 What you can control and what you cannot control
17.25 Parallels of handling the team at work the same way as the water polo team
17.55 Identifying what is affecting teammate’s performance
18.30 Showing empathy
19.09 Translate empathy from sport to managing a team at work
19.44 What spending much time with teammates helps build and nurture
20.53 Having a headstart at corporate life having been in a team sport
Like training. Want to train. Enjoy the sport. Just play and play and play. And it was one of the things he could do fairly well then.
21.30 The momentous highs
21.45 The next best high
22.10 11 year old son was inspired to play the sport after his 2015 home ground Gold Medal win
23.05 Proud daddy moment
24.00 Sacrifices from being a high performance athlete
24.39 Lowest point was when he retired
25.28 Experiencing withdrawal symptoms
25.46 Discovering what was missing in his life
27.07 How else has water polo shaped him as a person
28.11 Why he spent so much time training in the sport of water polo
28.32 What drives him to keep doing it
31.45 Secret sauce to how Singapore was able to maintain the Gold Medal at the SEA Games
32.00 Talking about burnout and how to prevent it
32.50 Network of water polo teammates
34.00 How families have been brought together as well
35.15 Overcoming adversity in professional and personal life
36.30 Not taking eye off the ball
37.33 Understanding stress threshold
37.55 Testing your limit
38.27 Mindfulness at this age now
39.10 Playing in the same team as his son
39.10 Understanding injury prevention
40.45 Understanding limits of mind over matter
41.50 What would you say to your younger self?
42.15 Single minded approach to attain your goal
43.30 What is the value of the time put in to developing his passion?
44.00 Staying focused and not being distracted from the goal
46.09 Takeaways
