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My guest today is Michael Lardon, one of the premier mental performance coaches in the world, with clients in more than a dozen professional and Olympic sports. His athletes have won major golf championships, Olympic gold medals, Super Bowls and World Series titles, among other achievements. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and a Consulting Psychiatrist to the United States Olympic Teams at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

The topic is mental performance coaching.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Lardon\\u2019s early experiences playing professional table tennis; the \\u201cslowing down of time\\u201d and how it affects performance
• The importance of mental performance in sports
• Phil Mickelson\\u2019s loss at the 2013 Open and his win at the British Open a month later, and how Lardon was assisting him during this period
• \\u201cThe yips\\u201d, and what is going on in the mind when someone can no longer perform a simple activity they used to accomplish easily
• Neurological vs. psychological \\u201cyips\\u201d
• Lardon\\u2019s opinion on what\\u2019s happening with Tiger Woods currently
• Narrow, intense focus vs. dropping the intense expenditure of energy when you don\\u2019t need it (ie. what do you do with your downtime?)
• The process of desensitization
• The deliberate plan for improvement and the importance of writing things down

Jump in!

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