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In this episode of the Wrestling Mindset Podcast, Gene Zannetti talks with Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champion Jordan Burroughs about the partnership between Wrestling Mindset and All I See Is Gold Academy, why mindset becomes more important as you get older in the sport, how youth wrestling is 100% mental because young athletes lack physical strength and technical skill, and why he trusts Wrestling Mindset’s approach.
Episode Summary
The conversation kicks off with Burroughs explaining how the role mindset plays in wrestling shifts depending on where an athlete is in their career, and his view that at the youth level the sport is essentially 100% mental because young wrestlers don’t yet have the physical strength or technical skill to lean on. From there, Burroughs gets into why he chose Wrestling Mindset for this partnership: they’re wrestlers who’ve been in the game themselves, and that experience shapes how they coach foundational mindset principles to young athletes.
The episode closes on the two goals driving the partnership: helping wrestlers learn to fail forward without losing enthusiasm for the sport, and developing athletes who are insanely driven and disciplined in everything they do.
Timestamps
- 1:15 – Wrestling mindset percentage depends on where you are in life
- 1:46 – Youth wrestling is 100% mental at this age
- 3:33 – Why Wrestling Mindset: you’re wrestlers who’ve been in the game
- 6:18 – Memorizing foundational mindset principles
- 7:51 – Goal one: learning to fail forward without losing enthusiasm
- 8:33 – Goal two: creating people who are insanely driven and disciplined
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