Um , but I didn't realize that , so I , I toned up the physical at the expense of my mental game , and And trying to emulate people better than me , and it just taught me that you have to know your strengths and if you want to grow , grow like organically increment by increment , I was trying to grow like too fast in a way that I kind of got stretch marks or speed wobbles . So that was a huge lesson . The second biggest challenge and then growth that came from that was probably just burnout .
You know , the material things you have , uh , aren't what make life . Worth it , I guess that's kind of a lesson I learned from that . Um , a lot of the Olympic gear did survive though .
So burnout . It was a huge lesson for me to stay resting and not going too hard and also to know your strengths in that because I was , I was , uh , redlining my weaknesses and it just , it burned me out . All right , challenge number 3 of my 23 year old lifespan , I would say would go to our house .
Challenges definitely have come my way throughout , I guess I'm 23 now , so over the last 23 years . The biggest ones , I would say just learning my strengths , kind of maturing into that . I always wanted to maybe be someone else , and I admired a lot of people , but Never fully understood that most of my strength is in my head , and if I don't value that and go into matches knowing that I'm there to problem solve and think my way to a win as opposed to being really aggressive or instinctual or like this macho athlete , that's not me , but I always admired those athletes to the point where I'd want to be them , kind of detracting from my own strengths , so .
So really cool guy . Um , other coaches as well have taught me a lot about how humans make decisions . Tyler Hildebrand comes to mind .
