Challenges That Change Us
138 {Nathan Stapleton pt 1} The mindset an NRL player develops from adversity in elite sports
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Episode notes
Few people know what is required mentally to achieve at the highest level of elite sport, and fewer still know what it’s like to have to apply that mindset to a life changing injury.
Nathan Stapleton is an Australian professional rugby league player who most recently played for the London Broncos in the Kingstone Press Championship. He previously represented the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League, primarily playing as a wing, fullback, and center.
In this episode he shares:
- His early life in rural Australia
How he ended up in elite level rugby
- The pressure and expectations he was under as an athlete
- The emotional lows he experienced in football
- The mindsets he leaned on when things got tough
- What the cost of his drive and discipline was
- The experience of losing his mum at 23
- The moves he made after the sharks
- His experience with his wife having a miscarriage
- Why he wasn’t prepared to deal with the miscarriage.
Key Quotes
“Because I always buried myself in physical work I didn’t know how to handle it mentally
"It was a lot harder than I was anticipating."
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