335: Expert Edition: Rory Darkins (rewired): Positive Sports Psychology Researcher & Mental Skills Coach

Jul 26, 2022

Rory Darkins, positive sports psychology researcher & mental skills coach, discusses optimizing performance, achieving greatness while maintaining personal well-being, the power of positive psychology, the relationship between happiness and success, finding joy in sports, competing with others, and the impact of passion on performance.

Ask episode

Chapters

Transcript

Episode notes

Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Optimizing Wellbeing and Performance: A Mental Skills Coach's Perspective

03:02 • 8min

Achieving Greatness while Maintaining Personal Well-being

10:34 • 8min

Focusing on What's Right: The Power of Positive Psychology

18:54 • 19min

The Relationship Between Happiness and Success in Positive Psychology

38:24 • 5min

Finding Joy in Sports

43:46 • 7min

Competing with Others vs Against Them

50:26 • 4min

The Impact of Passion on Performance

54:37 • 16min

Rory is a positive psychology academic and mental skills coach to Olympic athletes and the brains behind the "What's Right Within" Podcast.

Rory is a regular speaker at global conferences including the World Congress on Positive Psychology. Rory translates the best of the research into practical and easy to understand strategies that anyone can take home and apply to life and thrive

We are just weeks away from our next live stream event featuring Rory Darkins on 10th September 2022, we felt it timely to warm you up for some mental skills training by re-batching and re-releasing Rory Darkins, Expert Edition Episode.

Show Sponsor:

Polar are a sports technology company who build world class heart rate monitors and GPS watches for people who take their health, fitness and sports performance seriously. Coming from the heart of the Nordics, they have the experience, insight, and history of quality, design and innovation which is unparalleled. Worn by some of the best athletes on the planet, we’re very excited to have Polar as a partner here so you can also access their heart rate monitors, watches and training platform. Polar are very excited to announce that they are launching two stunning new-generation running watches, the Polar Pacer and Polar Pacer Pro.

As a starting bonus, the team at Polar are offering 15% off. If it’s time for you to check out a new heart rate monitor or watch to help improve your performance, head across to Polar.com and use the code TPPS on selected products.

Join the The Physical Performance Show LEARNINGS membership through weekly podcasts | Patreon

If you enjoyed this episode of The Physical Performance Show please hit SUBSCRIBE for to ensure you are one of the first to future episodes.

Jump over to The Physical Performance Show - https://physicalperformanceshow.com/ for more details.

Follow @Brad_Beer Instagram & Twitter

The Physical Performance Show: Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter (@tppshow1)

Please direct any questions, comments, and feedback to the above social media handles.