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Today’s guest is Mark Matthews.
Mark is a big wave surfer and an motivational speaker.
Mark has made a living achieving the near impossible: crossing the intersection of danger and excitement. He knows all too well the crippling grasp of fear.
While in Tasmania, fifteen feet in front of a cliff in cold, shark infested waters, Mark hit a reef and instantly blacked out. Terror engulfed every inch of his being. Neck braced and hospital-ridden, he didn’t know if he could ever surf again. At that moment, Mark made a decision never to allow fear to overpower him again.
He has deconstructed, fine-tuned, and personalized emotion and resilience techniques to successfully strengthen one’s mindset and sustain long term performance.
These techniques have helped him win an unprecedented three consecutive Oakley Big Wave Awards and cement him as one of the best big waves surfers in the world.
In this interview, we discuss his story, big wave surfing, fear and how to overcome it, how to prepare and train, how to become mentally stronger after failure and how to ride the big waves in your own life.
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WHAT IS DISCUSSED
In this interview, we discuss gems like:
- Who they are
- His fear of the ocean and how he overcame it
- How he entered into motivational speaking.
- How do you prepare to ride a ‘big wave’?
- How does he train for the dangers that arise during the ride?
- What tools does he use to find the big waves he wants to ride?
- How does he mentally prepare for riding giant waves?
- How does he pick the waves that he wants to ride and which ones are not safe to try
- Ways that you can use fear as a positive emotion to assist you – how you can use overcoming fear to help you overcome another future fear
- Ways to overcome impostor syndrome
- Ways to recover when you ‘wipe out’ in your life
- How to avoid chasing adrenaline highs
- Where does his strength of character come from?
- The importance of goal-setting, and how he advises you should use them
- Do you need fear to be a top performer?
- Would he let his kids take on big wave surfing?
- How you can connect with them
KEY POINTS TO REFLECT ON & LINKS MENTIONED
In this interview, a lot of jewels of self-improvement are discussed. Some of these and their associated thoughts include:
- Mark was terrified of the ocean when he was small, but his love for surfing overwrote his fear of the ocean. What are you wanting to do? How can you make your dream override your fear in doing it.
- You will always feel fear, it will come naturally and cannot be changed. However, you can change your reaction to it. Learn to feel the fear but do it anyway.
- Learn to overcome the fear holding you back and you will be amazed at where life can take you.
- Sometimes it is the route to something that is better than the actual accomplishment. Stop focusing on the destination and enjoy the journey.
- Start small and build. Don’t overestimate your current abilities but also don’t undervalue what you are capable of. Start now, start today and grow and develop.
- You don’t need to know everything. Mark works with an amazing support team to prepare and surf safely, and collect the shots etc they need. Delegate jobs and training needs as you require – there are amazing support methods about, use them. Find the support team you need in your life to assist, train, prep and support you with.
- You will not raise to the challenge usually but you will fall to the highest level of your training, so train efficiently and effectively for your challenge. Repetition of movement patterns and work on skill development will help you keep safe and achieve your goals.
- You need to train the toughest parts, the scariest part. Look at what your sport or challenge involves and which parts scare you. Write them down, that is now your focus, get to work on training for them until they barely bother you as you know you have the skills and competency to complete what is needed.
- You need to find the impact zone in your life, and risk failure, and chase the waves that you can ride to success.
- Change your physical posture to a more confident stance, to switch from a negative and critical thought pattern to a confident outlook instead.
- There is a difference of doing something that you want to and something that you are doing to impress others with. Do it for the right reasons and trust your gut, you know which is which.
- There is always something good that you can take from a negative event, regardless of what happened. You only lose when you give up.
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WHAT SHOULD YOU DO AFTER LISTENING
These are some key actions that you should undertake after listening to this interview:
- Connect with Mark on LinkedIn
- Consider where fear is in your life, look at how you can change your viewpoint on it.
- Look for the big waves you need to ride in your life, plan on how to catch them, train for them and go for it. Stop letting fear hold you back!
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