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Brian Miles, CMPC
Brian Miles, CMPC
Mental Performance Coach, MLB
Brian Miles is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and Major League Mental Performance Coach based in Cleveland, Ohio. He boasts a rich academic background graduating with a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Montclair State University, where he excelled both academically and athletically as a member of their men’s soccer team. Continuing his educational journey, Brian pursued a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Athletic Counseling, accompanied by a certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Clinical Mental Health from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Brian's professional career extends to his impactful work as a Master Resilience Trainer and Performance Expert, primarily with military personnel. Through teaching performance psychology skills and techniques, he empowers individuals to cultivate the mental and emotional resilience essential for excelling in challenging environments. Utilizing applied sport psychology principles, Brian has guided soldiers to enhance their performance as tactical athletes and fostered cohesive, high-performing unit teams, both in preparation for and during combat operations.
TOPIC
Learners
The Story: Our society separates them. Somewhere along the way, we decided that one interfered with the other. Go to school for 8 years to become a doctor–most of that time, you’re learning about doctoring, not actually doing doctoring. There are 56 million people in K-12 (compulsory education) in the US right now. Most of them do nothing all day but school, failing to bring real-life activity, experimentation, and interaction into the things that they are being taught. The alternative? Learning. Learning that embraces doing. The doing of speaking up, reviewing, and being reviewed. The learning of relevant projects and peer engagement. Learning and doing together, at the same time, each producing the other.
Process:
Getting good at a new skill is going to require failure
There is a tension to working on the edge of your capacity, one that will be uncomfortable
It is going to look ugly before it looks awesome---with some feeling out of control mixed in there.
“One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new and feel momentarily incompetent. We have to remember that learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.” – Seth Godin
MENTAL PERFORMANCE TOOL
Tool
TODAY- If you experience a failure, can you understand its purpose in the journey of your process? Can you find ways today to feel just a “little out of control”?
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