#22 Mental Skills From Elite Sport To Everyday Life - Aaron Walsh

How do you train mental skills to help perform at the next level?

Aaron Walsh does a deep dive into the world of mental skills training with the ultimate goal of performing under high levels of pressure. Aaron explores how people respond differently to pressure and he opens up on how he has harnessed mental skills training to build resilience in his personal life, including how he lost half of his body weight, and he brings a tear to our eyes when discussing his wife and the struggles they have gone through after she was diagnosed with MS.

Aaron is the mental skills coach for the Chiefs rugby club in New Zealand as well as the former mental skills coach for the Warriors in the NRL. Aaron also consults to athletes and professional sporting teams around the world and is passionate about seeing people grow and flourish to become the best that they can.

In this episode Andrew and Aaron discuss:

4:44 The evolution of Mental Skills

19:32 Losing 70kg

28:23 Aaron's wife Kristy's battle with MS

36:05 The current state of the All Blacks

50:04 Using "hacks"

58:33 Why Aaron does what he does

1:02:00 PQ Baker's Dozen

You can find Aaron at his LinkedIn: https://shorturl.at/IPZ56

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