Hockey Is What You Do, Not Who You Are: Identity, Mindset, and Growth

Welcome to Episode 53 — Hockey Is What You Do, Not Who You Are: Identity, Mindset, and Growth … brought to you by Vaughn Custom Sports!

Today, host Jeff Lerg and Chris Palmer discuss the main topic: identity and the dangers of over-identification with being “a hockey player”. We also dive into why we linked identity to standards, or daily codes of conduct— and how youth systems that push single-sport immersion can narrow identity and increase risk.

💥 Episode 53 highlights:

- How other roles (e.g., fisherman, skateboarder, friend, artist) are very important because off-ice joy refuels on-ice performance.

- Jeff's example of founding his goalie coaching business as a college sophomore, which 20 years later has evolved into mentoring—an example of expanding identity that energized his playing years

- How identity drives standards—daily codes of conduct—that shape behavior.

- We warned that even highly successful players can feel lost post-hockey; he urged building a full life and revisiting the identity–standards–habits loop, noting brains develop until ~25

- How one can have multiple identities, because being just a "hockey player" can be suffocating.

AND A LOT MORE!

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