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Kobe Bryant’s Mentality Coach Teaches YOU How to CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

📅 January 13, 2024 ⏱️ 1:02:20 🎤 Tommy Mello, Todd Herman

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  • 0:00
    Your identity shapes your reality
  • 2:10
    Becoming an accidental entrepreneur in mental-game coaching
  • 4:23
    Spending 33 days with a pro athlete
  • 6:38
    Trust: running the plays vs pure athleticism
  • 13:17
    Be off-balance on purpose — find your superpower
  • 19:53
    The neuroscience behind affirmations
  • 30:47
    Identity shapes reality — habits follow identity
  • 33:03
    The alter ego: Black Mamba and the Challenger
  • 37:27
    Why owners can't see themselves succeeding
  • 39:40
    Change your inputs, osmosis changes you
  • 48:26
    "What would need to be true?"
  • 52:58
    Third-person self-talk for peak performance

Speakers

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Tommy Mello
Host, A1 Garage Door Service
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Todd Herman
Mental Game Coach & Author, The Alter Ego Effect

Key Takeaways

Your identity shapes your reality — shift an athlete's or owner's identity and the habits, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors you need come embedded with it.

Be off-balance on purpose — double down on your superpower instead of chasing being 'well-rounded.'

Own the clutch moments — great performers take the game into their own hands, and people remember the makes, not the misses.

Use an alter ego as an anchor point — Kobe had the Black Mamba; pick an identity to activate the attributes you want to embody.

Affirmations are backed by real neuroscience (Waterloo, UCSB, Stanford) — 'I will / I am' statements measurably reprogram how you act.

Change your inputs and your environment and osmosis changes you — you become the people and processes you surround yourself with.

Use third-person self-talk — many of the best performers coach themselves in third person to perform under pressure.

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