Monkey Mind

Mental health & performance psychology for athletes, teams, and high-performance organizations.

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Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.

Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.

"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"

"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"

"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"

"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"

"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"

Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.

"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."

"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."

"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."

The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…

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Mental health doesn’t have to become a crisis before it deserves attention. You don’t wait until your body breaks down to take care of it, so why do we treat our minds differently?

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Once people understand how to work their own operating system (their brain), life begins to open up for them. And the possibilities go far beyond performance.

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We are barely scratching the surface when it comes to the mind and just how powerful it is. It's the computer that controls your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

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@SahilBloom Success in anything is psychological.

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The brain cannot fully tell the difference between an imagined rep and a physical one. It fires many of the same neural pathways. Let that sink in.

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Mistakes are coming. Your response shouldn’t be a surprise.

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Build your post-mistake routine BEFORE you need it:

• Pick your reset now, not mid-game
• Take 3 deep, slow breaths
• Let it go physically (towel wipe, flick grass)
• Walk 10 steps/wait 10 seconds
• Smile, even a fake one shifts your mood
• Get back to the present rep

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The best athletes rarely make the same mistake twice. It’s not luck, they’ve built a routine that turns each error into a lesson on the spot, mid-competition. Mistakes become feedback instead of baggage.

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@tscpod Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz talks all about this! The way you view yourself is seriously everything

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In this episode, Powell and I dive into the process of becoming an elite athlete and what the process actually looks like throughout an athletes journey. Powell shares tools he uses with his athletes to break down their process and achieve their goals faster and more efficiently.

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The secret to overcoming mental blocks from injuries? Libby Triolo, LPC, discusses the power of visualization to smoothen the transition of getting back into the game post-injury. Watch Episode #102 to hear more about visualization & other tools to improve self awareness.

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Do you ever feel like you struggle to bring the same level of play to the game that you bring to practice? In Episode #102 of the Monkey Mind Podcast, Libby Triolo, LPC, discusses self-awareness and how you can learn to perform just as well under pressure as you do in practice.

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Some words of strength from Brian Miles. 📷
The habits you build today are what sets you above the rest tomorrow.
#Habits #Strength #Routine #Performance

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Episode #102 of the Monkey Mind Podcast is now LIVE!
This episode features Libby Triolo, LPC, and covers all the ins and outs of self awareness. This is a relevant topic for anyone, but especially athletes who need to be even more mindful of their thoughts and actions.

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break Through the Threshold.

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break Through the Threshold.