Dorfman 03 - Al Leiter - Know Your Job

In this episode of The Mental Performance Mastery Podcast, Brian continues a tribute series to one of his mentors and a mental performance coaching icon, Harvey Dorfman.  

Al Leiter pitched in Major League Baseball from 1987-2005, was a 2x All-Star, a 3x World Series Champion, and New York Mets Hall of Famer.  Leiter worked closely with Harvey and attributes a lot of his success over his career to his work on the mental game with Harvey.

In this episode Al & Brian discuss:

• The moment Al knew he needed help with mental performance
• The 3 day think tank that Al and Harvey at his house in Prescot, Arizona
• Getting clarity on your job as a pitcher
• Being mentally and physically prepared to execute a pitch
• What made Harvey so special in Al’s eyes
• The listen and call you on your shit balance
• Professional athletes need and want to hear the truth
• Getting down to straight talk
• How you feel vs. how you behave
• Harvey’s two two processes for development
• Controlling what you can control
• Self-promotion vs. doing the work as a mental performance coach
• Al’s advice for mental performance coaches

Conversations, Content and Careers - The Life and Legacy of Harvey Dorfman is a series in which Brian interviews former players and staff who had their careers positively impacted by Harvey.  Go inside the conversations, the content and the careers forever changed by one of the greatest mental performance coaches who ever lived.

Check out Harvey’s Books on Amazon

📕The Mental Game of Baseball

📕The Mental Keys to Hitting

📕The Mental ABCs of Pitching

📕Coaching The Mental Game

📕Copying It Down

📕Each Branch, Each Needle

📕Babbling Echoes

📕Persuasion of My Days

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