The Lost Years
The years after college athletics where you no longer have clear direction, passions, or meaningful goals
What are the Lost Years
The years after college athletics where you no longer have clear direction, passions, or meaningful goals.
Identity is based on off of your confidence and ability to
Everything you've known and devoted your entire memorable life to is over in the blink of an eye with minimal preparation for the future.
As a collegiate athlete, you entire identity is wrapped up in athletics. You spend the better part of your life with clear direction, clear goals, a team, a coach, and unparalleled support along the way.
The more you reinforce a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior. The more evidence you have for something the more it gets attached to your identity. (if you go to church for 20 years, you have evidence that you're religious. If you go to the gym even when its snowing, you have evidence that you're committed to fitness.
Because of lack of self esteem and confidence/identity in new htings after sports, we revert to sports as careers because we're more confident doing that.
Who are you?
You graduate from college with no work experience and you assume you can't get a job because you don't have any work experience and no one will hire you. You've determined your identity and picked your value and caused your problem.
Mansions law of avoidance 0 the more something threatens our identity, the more you'll avoid it. - We're unfairly biased to what we already know and avoid situations that question or contradict that belief.
Nothing sustains motivation better than belonging to a tribe. It transforms a personal quest into a shared one. Your identity becomes linked to those around you. Growth and change is no longer an individual pursuit. The shared identity reinforces your personal identity. It's friendship and community that embeds a new identity and helps behaviors last over the long run.


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