BITESIZE #1 | Steven Gerrard: How to deal with failure

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This week we go back to our conversation with Rangers boss Steven Gerrard, and his relationship with failure.

Listen to Steven's full episode here: https://pod.fo/e/a33ba

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# Steven Gerrard on Dealing with Failure: A High-Performance Perspective

**Key Points:**

- Steven Gerrard, the legendary footballer and manager, shares his insights on dealing with failure.


- Gerrard emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and embracing failure as a stepping stone to growth and improvement.


- He believes that failure should not be seen as a negative experience but rather as an opportunity to learn, analyze, and come back stronger.


- Gerrard's approach to failure is characterized by resilience, determination, and a willingness to challenge himself.


- He suggests reframing failure as a positive experience by viewing it as fascinating rather than as a setback.


- Gerrard encourages individuals to embrace the challenge of failure and seek it out as a means of reaching their full potential.


- The podcast highlights the common theme among high-performance individuals of viewing failure as an integral part of the journey to success.


- Gerrard's perspective on failure aligns with the idea of adopting a growth mindset, where challenges are seen as opportunities for learning and improvement.


- The podcast emphasizes the importance of resilience and perseverance in overcoming setbacks and achieving long-term goals.


- Gerrard's advice serves as a reminder that failure is an inevitable part of life and that it can be transformed into a positive force for growth and development.


- The podcast encourages listeners to adopt a positive mindset towards failure and to view it as a valuable learning experience.

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[02:45.400 -> 02:51.000] As always, Professor Damien Hughes is alongside me and we're going to use the next few minutes to equip you
[02:51.000 -> 02:55.800] via some golden nuggets of advice from one of our High Performance Podcast guests.
[02:55.800 -> 02:59.400] Just helping you live a more high-performance lifestyle.
[02:59.400 -> 03:03.400] On today's hit, Stephen Gerrard's advice for dealing with failure.
[03:07.000 -> 03:09.000] ymchwilio, ymdrech, gweithio allan, beth a phosib, ac ymwneud â'i wneud yn well. Ond mae'n iawn, yw'n i, dwi'n meddwl, mae'n iawn, oherwydd dyna lle rydych chi'n cael eich gael.
[03:09.000 -> 03:15.000] Nid ar y pryd, nid, mae'n anhygoel, dwi'n dweud wrthoch chi, mae'n anhygoel, ond mae wedi digwydd,
[03:15.000 -> 03:21.000] mae'n ymwneud â'i ddeall, ymdrech a'r ymdrech a'r cyfrifiad a'r penderfyniad
[03:21.000 -> 03:27.520] y byddwch chi eisiau my ymwneud â'i ddealu, analysu, ymdrechu a ddod o'r cyfrifiadau
[03:27.520 -> 03:30.160] a chael y penderfyniad oedd eisiau ei wneud yn unwaith eto.
[03:30.160 -> 03:35.160] Ond rydw i'n ymwneud â'r heriau.
[03:35.160 -> 03:37.400] Dwi ddim yn ymdrech i'r gwaith,
[03:37.400 -> 03:41.680] er mwyn gwybod bod e'n dal gyda fi
[03:41.680 -> 03:42.960] am ddau blynedd.
[03:42.960 -> 03:47.200] Dwi'n rhywun sy'n ymdrech a bydd eisiau ymdrechu. it stays with me for a long time. I'm someone who is driven and wants to challenge myself again.
[03:47.200 -> 03:49.600] I wonder, you know, whether that moment against Chelsea,
[03:49.600 -> 03:51.700] if that hadn't happened and you'd won the Premier League that season,
[03:51.700 -> 03:53.500] I wonder whether you would be a manager now.
[03:53.600 -> 03:54.300] So do I.
[03:54.700 -> 03:58.200] And if only you could have seen the wry grin on his face as he said,
[03:58.200 -> 04:00.100] so do I to myself and Damien.
[04:00.400 -> 04:02.000] You know what I find interesting about that,
[04:02.000 -> 04:06.060] Damien, is that dealing with failure is a recurring theme.
[04:06.060 -> 04:08.140] It's a conversation we have with pretty much
[04:08.140 -> 04:10.700] all of our high-performance guests on the podcast.
[04:10.700 -> 04:13.840] Yet, Stephen is one of those
[04:13.840 -> 04:17.340] who really clearly carries it with him.
[04:17.340 -> 04:19.760] And that goes to show that you can still really
[04:19.760 -> 04:22.500] be impacted by failure, like he clearly is,
[04:22.500 -> 04:25.480] but still learn from it, still turn it into a positive.g, ond i gyd, dysgu o'r peth, i gyd, gwneud y peth yn positif.
[04:25.480 -> 04:29.440] Iawn, yn siŵr, Jake. Rwy'n credu bod un o'r teimladau cyffredin sydd wedi'u cymryd ar ein
[04:29.440 -> 04:34.800] cyfrifau'r podcast oedd bod y ffaith bod y ffaith yn rhan o'r ffordd. Nid yw'r dyddiad
[04:34.800 -> 04:39.360] rydyn ni'n mynd i. Ac rwy'n credu bod Stephen yn ei ddysgu'n iawn yno. Mae'n
[04:39.360 -> 04:43.640] ddifrifol, nid yw rhywbeth sy'n cael ei chymryd yn unigol, ond os ydyn ni'n ei gynllunio
[04:43.640 -> 04:47.600] ac yn ei weld fel rhywbeth y gallwn ei ymchwilio, gallwn ei ymdrechu, gweithio allan, It's not something that anybody particularly welcomes, but if we reframe it and see it as something that we can investigate, we can explore, work out
[04:47.600 -> 04:50.000] what it's taught us and then move forward,
[04:50.000 -> 04:52.800] we can only move forward stronger and better
[04:52.800 -> 04:54.560] and more resilient.
[04:54.560 -> 04:56.440] And when I knew that we were gonna have this chat,
[04:56.440 -> 04:59.840] I thought to myself, okay, what is failure
[04:59.840 -> 05:01.560] if I don't let it bother me?
[05:01.560 -> 05:03.480] And that I think is actually quite powerful
[05:03.480 -> 05:07.480] because life is not about actually what happens to you it's about your reaction to those
[05:07.480 -> 05:11.720] things so if you decide that you're gonna fail but you're gonna smile and
[05:11.720 -> 05:14.800] you're gonna move forwards and you're gonna fail often and you're gonna seek
[05:14.800 -> 05:20.160] failure and you're gonna embrace failure you're choosing for failure to be okay
[05:20.160 -> 05:23.720] you're not allowing it to control you in any way. Yeah there's a great example of
[05:23.720 -> 05:29.040] this from a man called Ben Zander who sy'n rhaidwyr yr Orchestra Philharmonig y Boston ac mae'n dweud
[05:29.040 -> 05:35.440] y byddai, pa byddwch chi'n teimlo'r ffailiau, mae'n ei ddweud o'i chyfathrebu moment a dweud
[05:35.440 -> 05:40.320] y byddwch chi'n defnyddio'r ff-syllwyd, oherwydd yna mae'n ei gynllunio i ddechrau ymdrechu,
[05:40.320 -> 05:48.760] gwneud ymwneud â beth sydd wedi mynd yn iawn a sut y byddwch chi'n ei ddweud am y pwysleidiau hwnnw ymlaen, work out what's gone wrong and how that he's going to avoid that mistake next time and I think that's a really nice way of viewing failure as the other F
[05:48.760 -> 05:54.080] word is view it as fascinating rather than as a failure and a full stop.
[05:54.080 -> 05:59.120] And you know I'm sure lots of people listening to this go to the gym if they
[05:59.120 -> 06:02.360] go to work and their boss says look you failed at that it hits them hard right
[06:02.360 -> 06:08.320] if they go to the gym and their PT says, right, listen, I want you to do bench presses to failure,
[06:08.320 -> 06:10.640] they don't see it as like, oh, not to failure,
[06:10.640 -> 06:11.720] oh no, but I'm gonna fail.
[06:11.720 -> 06:13.080] At the end of it, they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, brilliant,
[06:13.080 -> 06:14.640] I'm gonna do that to failure.
[06:14.640 -> 06:15.920] That's like the challenge.
[06:15.920 -> 06:20.360] And I would sort of suggest that anyone listening to this
[06:20.360 -> 06:22.060] tries to adopt the mindset of,
[06:22.060 -> 06:24.880] I'm gonna allow myself to be challenged by failure.
[06:24.880 -> 06:28.400] I'm going to look at it as a positive when failure comes to my doorstep, yn ceisio adnabod y meddwl, rydw i'n mynd i allu fy hun i fod yn heriol o fawr. Rydw i'n mynd i edrych arno fel positif pan fawr ymlaen at fy nes ymlaen,
[06:28.400 -> 06:30.800] oherwydd dyna pan dwi'n gwybod dwi wedi'n cyrraedd fy nghyflawn.
[06:30.800 -> 06:33.400] Ac os dwi'n mynd trwy ddau wythnos, dydd,
[06:33.400 -> 06:38.400] efallai dydd, whan ddim fawr o fawr, dwi'n gwybod dwi ddim wedi cyrraedd fy nghyflawn.
[06:38.400 -> 06:41.600] Yn siŵr, ac edrychwch arno i ddweud y metaforaeth, Jake,
[06:41.600 -> 07:05.260] y byddwch chi'n gynnal gweithiau, mae'r gynhyrch yn mynd yn fwy gynhyrchol yma, yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma of our capability. And by the way, if this little hit of the High Performance Podcast is the first time
[07:05.260 -> 07:06.920] that you've heard anything and you think
[07:06.920 -> 07:09.480] that it's all about celebrating success,
[07:09.480 -> 07:12.240] let me just reiterate what we've heard here.
[07:12.240 -> 07:15.080] One of the most celebrated and successful footballers
[07:15.080 -> 07:19.000] and now a really good manager, talking about failure.
[07:19.000 -> 07:20.760] The very best people fail.
[07:20.760 -> 07:23.240] Don't see failure as a failure anymore.
[07:23.240 -> 07:28.320] See failure as a moment of learning. Damien, thank you very much. Thanks Jake, loved it as always.
[07:28.320 -> 07:32.400] Enjoyed that, don't forget to check in for more little hits of inspiration from
[07:32.400 -> 07:36.240] the High Performance Podcast. You can also find us on YouTube, you can find us
[07:36.240 -> 07:40.120] on Instagram as well, just search for High Performance. Thanks very much to
[07:40.120 -> 07:44.120] Damien, to Will, to Hannah, but most of all to you for supporting the High
[07:44.120 -> 07:46.320] Performance Podcast. We'll see you soon.