In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast Brian sits down with UFC Hall of Famer, World Champion and MMA Icon Forrest Griffin. Forrest Griffin is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2013. He currently serves as the Vice President of Athlete Development for the UFC Performance Institute.  

He’s the author of, one of the funniest books I have ever read, Got Fight, and was a former Georgia police officer before taking the world and the octagon by storm when he first rose to prominence after winning the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. In the tournament finals, he defeated Stephan Bonnar, live on Spike TV which is widely credited as sparking the success of the UFC. 

In this podcast Forrest and I discuss:

Going from being a nursing major to UFC Hall of Famer

Battling Pre-Fight Nervous Energy and Channeling that Into Fuel

How Money Starts Making Everything More Real & Moves You From Passion to Performance

The Lessons Learned Form Forrest’s Rock Climbing Experience and the key lessons in not looking up or down

How The Great Ones Lose Themselves In The Details

Faking It It Till You Feeling & The Power of Self-Talk

Compartmentalization and separating who you are in and outside of the cage

How Routines make doing the extraordinary ordinary

Forrest mental performance bathtub routine for eliminating negative self-talk and doubt

How to learn from losing and using failure as positive feedback

The importance of being a shark and always hunting your next target with focus

Failing forward and living what you are teaching so others will listen to you

Please welcome to the Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, From Athens Georgia, by way of Las Vegas, Nevada, he is the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, The UFC Hall of Famer, Forrest Griffin.

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