Performing Despite the Pandemic | Exercise Psychological Flexibility

Building Championship Mindsets

In this episode of Building Championship Mindsets, Dr. Amber Selking talks about exercising psychological flexibility, which is being willing and able to adapt or persist in behavior that aligns with our values and goals despite current or immediate challenges. She discusses the four components that contribute to psychological flexibility.

About Building Championship Mindsets

Welcome to “Building Championship Mindsets. | the Podcast!” From the LockerRoom to the BoardRoom, our purpose is to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand and leverage the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive results and achieve sustainable performance excellence.

Selking Performance Group serves as the Mental Performance Consultant for Head Coach Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame Football team, and does speaking and training for sports teams and business organizations around the globe. She is the Vice President of Leadership & Culture Development at Lippert Components, Inc., a publicly-traded manufacturing company whose corporate vision is to change the model of work, demonstrating that business can and should Be a Force for Good in our world.

Dr. Selking has also served as an adjunct professor in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she taught Strategic Human Resource Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Selking received her PhD in Applied Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri under Dr. Rick McGuire, her master’s degree in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver, and her bachelor’s degree in Management Consulting from the University of Notre Dame. At ND, Amber played soccer for the Fighting Irish before injury ended her career, after which she founded Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA) in the ND Athletic Department. She currently resides in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Aaron, and their Doberman Pinscher, Rockne.

Championship Mindset Training | MidWeek Mental Rep

• Put a rubber band on your wrist to serve as a reminder to be mentally flexible. When you find yourself being rigid, locked in your own perspective or angry that something is not turning out the way you want it to, look at the rubber band. If you have to, snap yourself to remind yourself that there’s always a different perspective.

STANDOUT QUOTES

• “When it’s hard, we can’t tap out. We just can’t say ‘Let’s remove the difficult stimulus in our lives.’ We have to learn to deal with it.” -Dr. Amber Selking [01:27]
• “That’s really the power of diversity, that it brings different perspectives to the table. It allows us to see things more fully, more completely.” -Dr. Amber Selking [06:43]
• “Psychological flexibility allows us to not only know that there are different perspectives in any situation, but also see through the lens of others that there is more to the situation or moment or person than might be available to us from our own perspective.” -Dr. Amber Selking [07:59]
• “If we are psychologically rigid, we are unable to navigate and manage and go through and about those different life demands that we have, the desires that we have, the needs that we have.” -Dr. Amber Selking [08:35]

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TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[04:09] Exercise psychological flexibility

[05:33] Four components

[09:28] Reallocate mental resources

[11:23] This week’s Championship Mindset Training