#50 - Zak Taylor - Embrace Mental Performance To Evolve.

Today’s guest is Zak Taylor, first-year Director of Beaver Baseball Development and 2018 College Baseball World Series Champion with Oregon State.

If you are interested in the College World Series experience, pursuing indy ball, and the impact mental performance has had on Zak’s journey then this conversation is for you. Zak dives into his journey of meeting his mentor sophomore year to now directly coaching mental performance for the Beavs. We also discuss his new podcast, Perspective Project where he shares the backstories behind MLB greats like Adley Rustchman & Steven Kwan.

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Oregon State Game 2 CWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiHC05d63o&t=320s

Timestamps

(1:57) We’re Live

(3:00) Game 2 of The 2018 College World Series

(11:00) Arkansas Pop Up

(13:10) Accumulation of Work & Buy In

(16:20) The Pivotal Moment: Alan Jaeger

(20:24) Communication

(26:38) Senior Year Challenges

(35:44) Being The Best Version of You

(38:38) Fun

(51:05) Mental Performance Umbrella

(56:30) Overthinking & Make It Simple

(1:05:30) Pre-Training Vibes

(1:11:00) Perspective Project

(1:18:40) Becoming More Aware

(1:23:00) College Freshmen Leveling Up

(1:28:00) Forget The Tone

(1:29:10) Controllable & Variable

(1:32:23) Who Do You Look Up To?

(1:36:00) Happiness Is A Choice

(1:43:45) Future of Mental Performance