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Ryan: Welcome back to shift happens. I'm Ryan Shockner. This is Cheney Robinson and talking about athlete mindset hacks. And today we're talking about some statistics that we saw that really help put in perspective what's going on inside of our head, how it actually operates, 

[01:49] Cheney: There you go.

[01:49] Ryan: But things we've lived through or experienced drama, things we're going through right now or have witnessed bad events, that sort of stuff, our dad or our mom or those closest around us. Right. And so park that. What that means is the majority of our thoughts are, and that are limiting. Beliefs are not necessarily because we're limited on what we can do. It were beliefs that were imparted on us from others based on what they thought they were limited for. And so just play that out as generations prior to you, right. So if your parents and you're close surrounded, right. Well, they had people that impacted them. Who had people that impacted them. And it just gets bigger and bigger of, you know, the message being you're not smart enough to do this or you're not smart enough to do that or, you know, we, we come from this area. That's not what we're all about or you can't, you're not strong enough. And it's your thing, like you like.

[03:16] Cheney: In what's the name of the movie with it was Rudy Rudiger and.

[03:21] Ryan: Rudy Rudiger.

[03:22] Cheney: Right. Rudy. That's the name of it. You know, they're sitting on the. Sitting on the bench with. And he's like, we're Rudigers. And it's basically was like, we don't go do big stuff. We just put our nose to the grindstone. We do what we do, but we don't do anything outside of this.

[03:39] Ryan: And it's all ****. It's all ****. Right, right. And so, so 4 billion are firing, and 80% of it is. Is junk. That isn't even a good chin on what we're capable of or what we're not capable of. It's. It's somebody else's. And so we're letting these things impact how, you know, what chances we take, how we show up, whether we seize an opportunity or not. And I just think, like, if you eliminate that, what could humanity. Right? I mean, forget about the athletic field. What could humanity accomplish?

[04:32] Cheney: Well, it's infinite. I mean, there's just. I mean, we can. We can't begin to fathom what the possibilities are there. Right. But hearing the. Hearing these numbers, too, it makes you wonder, how do we get and get out of bed in the morning, right. Because you got generations of stuff that have been piled on us. Right? You're not. You can't do this. You can't do that. You know, that's not going to work. That's never been done. But you think about Prefontaine, four minute mile. Nobody had ever done it until he did. Right. And now. Okay, it's been done. Okay. I can go do both. So he.

[05:10] Ryan: Yeah, I saw he had to unpack.

[05:11] Cheney: A whole bunch of stuff. Right. To be able to run him to break the four minute mile.

[05:17] Ryan: Yep. Because you. Absolutely.

[05:19] Cheney: Just. All the stuff that's on Pac packed on him, his coaches, the fact that nobody had ever done it before, it's like, it can't be done. Okay. Yep. Watch this. Hold my beer.

[05:32] Ryan: And I saw a stat the other day that said it was like 97 or 98% of people are just robotically going through life. Right? So, yeah, it's a miracle 

[06:32] Cheney: Yeah.

[06:32] Ryan: And before he even got to the University of Tennessee, you know, he was from Atlanta. Two bedroom house, 14 people living in it. Once a week he got to sleep in an actual bed, but it was with all his cousins, so it wasn't even, you know, him alone in a bed. He had to shake out his backpack to get the roaches out of it before he got on the bus.

[06:58] Cheney: His little sliver of the cushion. Yeah.

[07:01] Ryan: I mean, and, but otherwise they were sleeping on crates on the floor, right? And he went to the worst performing high school in Atlanta. It was called crim High school. And the nickname of it was prime high, right? And so there was a point where he performed well athletically. His parents moved him to a better performing high school and that, and they said, hey, if you perform athletically here, we guarantee you a scholarship to the University of Georgia, right? So he was forced to go there, injured himself, couldn't play that season, and begged his parents to let him go back to crime high, right, criminal high school. And nobody could understand it. And he, so when he walked in, the security guard, right, they're doing the metal detector, and he goes, hey, son, what are you doing here? Or something like that. And he goes, what are you going to accomplish? And he goes, I'm going to go d one. And the security guard laughed and he goes, no, you're probably going to go to cell block one, right? Because that was the reputation. Nobody had ever gone, graduated and gone to a d one program athletically out of that high school, right? And so what he wanted to do was prove that it could be done. And it wasn't about him. It was his cousins, his, you know, his family that was coming up behind him that that would have been a statistic but now have accomplished stuff in their life because he, he showed that it could be done. Right. It was all that. So if you look at that, just that story, all that negative context, the environment he grew up in, even the attitude of the security guard of, you're coming here, you're not going to accomplish anything. All that negativity and limiting beliefs and, and he was able to box that out and, and focus on achieving, accomplishing the goal, right?

[09:17] Cheney: Yeah.

[09:17] Ryan: And, and so it could be done. Right. And there's stories of it, of it being done, but it's really, really difficult to do because of how the brain works. If we have to be able to identify what those false stories are before 

[10:40] Cheney: Well, and it's important stuff that we're doing, too. And I don't mean to downplay it by calling it stuff. It's.

[10:46] Ryan: It.

[10:47] Cheney: This is a lot bigger than that of. And I was thinking about that this morning, too, before we started recording, was, what is your definition of success? We got to define that because for you, it could be winning a ball game or it could be performing well on a test, and that's success. Or is it much more minute than that? And Saban and coach wooden would tell you it's success is winning, and whatever is in front of you right now. So whatever play this. This play, winning that play, and that's success.

[11:30] Ryan: Yeah.

[11:31] Cheney: So is it? You know, again, it could be achieving a goal is success. Okay. But there's a lot of steps that went into achieving that goal. There were a lot of little successes along the way that ultimately got to you. Got you to that.

[11:47] Ryan: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's perfect. Right? So it's focusing on little steps that achieve you to the larger goal, and. But. But as athletes, you know, we always kind of struggle as we. As we leave athletics, leave competitive athletics, and we enter this real world, and we think that, hey, 

[13:43] Cheney: Yeah.

[13:44] Ryan: Hopefully, hopefully the, the guy in front of me goes deeper into the count. So gives me a little bit of time and, and we can get this thing taken care of. So, so everyone, you know, the warm ups happen and, and I get my ankle taped up and shoes back on, and all of a sudden I hear the clink of the bat. Well, first pitch, strike. The guy, you know, gets a single, so now he's on first. I don't even have my batting glows, right? I haven't, I haven't done, I don't have a helmet. I gotta find it, right? Everyone's looking like, why isn't somebody on deck, you know, shoes finally getting tied? And so I get up there, no practice swings, you know, velcroing the batting gloves, and, and then I, and I go deep into, into this. I think there was something like twelve or 13 foul balls, right?

[14:33] Cheney: Yeah.

[14:34] Ryan: Those hurting. It was back in the day where, where you didn't have the even batter's box, right? But, so when you dig in, like there you were batting in holes and all this type of stuff.

[14:43] Cheney: Yeah, yeah.

[14:45] Ryan: I mean, and the stands were packed, so everyone's screaming, we've got a guy on first, right? So then I get my pitch, and it's a line shot that goes over the second baseman, splits the center fielder, and right fielder rolls to the wall, right? So I'm hobbling around the bases, the guy on first score, right? I'm hobbling around and I make it into third. Should have been an inside the park home run, right? But he ended up pulling ahead. 

[16:26] Cheney: Yeah.

[16:27] Ryan: And it could be where I let that story be told. Right, right. So it's. It's. It's so it can be done. And that's one example that I carry to this day of. You know, just because you've done it in athletics doesn't mean it has to stay in that silo. It can apply into life after.

[16:47] Cheney: No, it definitely, definitely transitions over. And, you know, I've heard this before, too, and it may have been Jordan that said, it's like I never lost a game. I just ran out of time. Right. And it's so it's that, again, it's 

[18:01] Ryan: 100%. 100%. Yeah. And it can be done. And, you know, if we think about, you know, practice. Right. The practice that we've had growing up and the practices we've gone to and watched of the teams that we've worked with at all levels, it. If you have 100%. Right. How much of that. Of that time that we're watching practice and that they're with the coaches is spent on the. The physical aspect of what they're doing?

[18:33] Cheney: Oh, majority of it.

[18:36] Ryan: I mean, almost 100%. Right. Outside of game planning and recognizing schemes and that sort of stuff. Right. Well, if the game is 90% 

[18:54] Cheney: It does, yeah. You should spend spending your time on the incorrect stuff. You're not spending your time wisely, basically. And I laugh 

[19:54] Ryan: Yeah. And it's the brain. Right. It's the mindset and that's the separator. But a lot of, with those guys specifically, it's breaking down 

[20:58] Cheney: And you talked about it, too, in your bestseller book of getting out of that mindset and breaking the generational cycles.

[21:07] Ryan: Yeah. Yep. It can be done. You just have to want to do it. And you gotta. You gotta erase the bad stuff, rewrite the stories. And it's as easy as that. Another episode. Thank you very much for joining. Shift happens. Athletes mindset. Hacks how to get better. Not just on the field, but off the