Gus Ornstein - A Mindset Masterclass

Gus played not one, but two sports at the professional level: football, and baseball. He is currently the athletic director and head football coach for an independent high school in the Bronx, New York. Today, I was able to hear about the thought processes, traits, behaviors, and skillsets that helped him climb to the top of the athletic world.  The conversation is loaded with incredible stories, lessons, and information. Some of the topics that we discussed include the role of friendship in coaching, dealing with performance-related anxiety, building confidence, how to react to losing, teaching life through sport, addressing parents worried about injuries, and more. Gus goes in depth about his most motivational speech, the time when a player he was coaching grabbed him and yelled at him in the middle of a game, why he thinks that coaching is 95% psychology, and more.