Chapter
The Mental Benefits of Sports
35:32 - 38:04 (02:32)
Sports can provide great mental training, teaching individuals to persevere and learn from failure. Viewing failure as an event rather than a personal characteristic can help individuals up their game and achieve success, both on and off the field.
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The speaker explains how sports can be great mental training because it teaches individuals how to handle failure and rejection, and how it can improve one's determination and self-awareness.
35:32 - 36:51 (01:19)
Mental Health
Summary
The speaker explains how sports can be great mental training because it teaches individuals how to handle failure and rejection, and how it can improve one's determination and self-awareness.
ChapterThe Mental Benefits of Sports
Episode1003 Jay Shetty: Mindset Habits for Happiness, and Thinking Like a Monk
PodcastThe School of Greatness
The feeling of rejection can be painful because we tend to look at failures as a complete definition of ourselves.
36:51 - 38:04 (01:13)
Rejection
Summary
The feeling of rejection can be painful because we tend to look at failures as a complete definition of ourselves. However, we should stop identifying ourselves with our failures and realize that failure is an event, not a person.