This is a transcript excerpt from a Mindvalley podcast episode (Nov 5, 2021) in which host Vishen Lakhiani interviews David Nurse, an NBA mindset coach and author of the book Breakthrough. The speakers discuss self-imposed limitations, the prevalence of negative self-talk, the idea of a personal "God-given gift," and the value of becoming "obsessed" with one's passion as a path to breakthroughs and purpose.
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Achieving things you didn't know possible. I love that. What does that mean to you? David Nurse is an MBA mindset coach. He is considered to be one of the top mindset development coaches working in the NBA. He's been invited to speak in a whopping 50 countries and he coaches CEOs and high performers of all walks of life. And has spoken at Fortune 500 companies such as Nestle, State Farm, Vivint and Nike. And his newest book called Breakthrough. So David, welcome to the mindvalley podcast.
We all put these limitations upon ourselves and at the end of the day, we are our biggest defender in life. Like it's been many studies done that you have 50,000 self talk thoughts per day. 80% of those are negative. So we have already put ourselves in this proverbial box, but there is really no proverbial box. And think about it, when you are a kid, when you are dreaming, when you have all these big aspirations in life, like the world is limitless. And at the core what that means is you have a God given gift. We all do. And our journey, our mission is to search for what that is and to be able to use it. Because there's nothing more beautiful when somebody is absolutely living in their zone, living in their past. And I don't care if it's somebody at the Coffee Bean down the street who is just absolutely obsessed with making the best coffee or it's the this guy over in Scotland who lives in the hills and mountains and makes the best cashmere sweaters out of this wool. Like you're fully obsessed with your passion. And that's what I call the search for eminence. And we're all on that search. And when we stay on that search, that's when we have these incredible breakthroughs that happen. This is when we break through these limitations. And it's really. Honestly, it's like the greatest gratitude that we can give back to the Creator is by taking these gifts that he's given us, figuring out what they are and then absolutely going all in and becoming obsessed. And I use that term, obsessed, but it's a good thing. Like balance. And balance is BS. Like I don't want to be 8020 on everything. I don't want to be 80:20 loving my wife. 80:20 in on the mission. I am, I want to become obsessed with the gifts that I've been given and use those.
I love that. I love that the greatest gift we can give the Creator is to create that which we are obsessed with.
