Coach Mike Neighbors on The Search For Truth
b"Mike Neighbors is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at the University of Arkansas. He is a father of four (Abby 26, Alec 20, Bowen 2, Barrett 9 months), a husband to Jayci, and a coach to 277 former players. For the last 29 years he has been paid as a Coach, but if you ask his lifelong friends and family, they will tell you he has been doing it since he was 9. So, he has really been a Coach for the last 43 years.\\nWhether it was a neighborhood backyard game of tennis ball or the Final Four in 2016, he has approached every game as an opportunity to compete, learn, and grow. He has remained a learn-it-all/share-it-all ever since a life changing heart attack at 29. Before then, he was a know-it-all/hoard-it-all.\\nHe hopes those in our orbit learn for the experiences we share.\\n\\xa0\\nMike had a number of amazing insights during our conversation. Some of them include:\\n\\u201cHad [I not had that heart attack at 29], I was probably heading down the wrong path\\u2026 I think I was lucky\\u201d (6:45).\\n\\u201cThose processes that I learned to survive [when I was younger] have helped me to survive in this very competitive world of college athletics\\u201d (16:15).\\n\\u201cGet out of their way when they don\\u2019t need you\\u201d (18:00).\\n\\u201cThat\\u2019s one of my favorite parts about coaching. They don\\u2019t need you for the celebration, they need you when we lose\\u201d (18:40).\\n\\u201cOnly when they need me are you going to notice me\\u201d (23:50).\\n\\u201cWithout the heart attack, without those experiences, I probably would\\u2019ve been using \\u2018I\\u2019 a lot more than \\u2018we\\u2019\\u201d (24:05).\\n\\u201cYou don\\u2019t have to be relatable with somebody to be inspired by them\\u201d (41:10).\\n\\u201cI wanted to believe as many true things as I possibly could\\u201d (48:30).\\n\\u201c\\u2019It depends\\u2019\\u2026 I say that all the time\\u201d (50:20).\\n\\u201cYou need to be compelled to be great at what you\\u2019re doing\\u201d (1:00:50).\\n\\u201cWe create better basketball players when they find that there are other things that basketball is going to create for them\\u201d (1:02:10).\\n\\u201cI worry about being wrong\\u201d (1:06:40).\\n\\u201cUntil you\\u2019ve done 40 hours of research on something, I don\\u2019t want to have a conversation with you about it\\u201d (1:09:00).\\n\\u201c[I envision myself coaching] forever\\u201d (1:16:45).\\n\\u201cI probably wouldn\\u2019t take a job where all it was was win at all costs\\u201d (1:21:35).\\n\\xa0\\nAdditionally, make sure to follow Mike on Twitter @coachneighbors and to check out his website coachneighbors.com!\\nThank you so much to Mike for coming on the podcast!\\nI wrote a book called \\u201cShift Your Mind\\u201d that was released in October of 2020, and you can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, I have launched a company called Strong Skills, and I encourage you to check out our new website https://www.strongskills.co/. If you liked this episode and/or any others, please follow me on Twitter:\\xa0@brianlevenson\\xa0or Instagram: @Intentional_Performers.\\nThanks for listening."