#151 - Dillon Thieneman on Preparation, Pressure, and Playing Free

About this episode

Dillon Thieneman discusses the mental aspects of elite performance and preparation in sports.

Dillon Thieneman’s path from Westfield High School to Purdue, Oregon, and now the NFL was built on more than talent. In this episode of The Coaching Minds Podcast, Ben Carnes sits down with Dillon to talk about the mental side of elite performance: growing up in a competitive household, learning from his brothers’ walk-on mentality, handling recruiting noise, preparing with detail, bouncing back from mistakes, and using visualization to “play the game before the game.” Dillon shares how prepa...

People in this episode

Host: Ben Carnes

Guest: Dillon Thieneman

Topics covered

• mental performance
• elite sports
• preparation
• visualization
• resilience
• recruiting

Keywords

• mental training
• elite performance
• sports psychology
• visualization
• resilience
• preparation
• NFL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Purdue, Oregon, NFL

Places: Westfield High School

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