LIVE: The Mindset that Drives an AFL Premiership and a Full Career Reinvention | Kieren Jack
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Kieren Jack shares insights on mindset, performance, and career reinvention after his successful AFL career.
Talent gets you through the door. It does not keep you in the room, and it has almost nothing to do with what you become. Kieren Jack is proof. The last pick in the AFL rookie draft, too small and too slow on paper, he outworked every reason he should not have made it. Kieren played 256 games for the Sydney Swans , co-captained the club, won the 2012 premiership and earned a place in its Hall of Fame. Then he did the harder thing. He walked away at the top and started again, building a whole new career in business where his name meant nothing. What carries across is the useful part. How do you keep performing when you are running on empty? What actually holds a team together when pressure hits? Why do the people who get knocked down and underestimated often end up the most dangerous? Recorded live, in a room that was never meant to be a podcast. No script, no second takes. You've got a seat that wasn't on sale. Whatever you are trying to build, you'll leave this one thinking differently about how you get there. 0:00 Pick 138, a famous surname, and why talent only opens the door 1:50 How the Swans built a dynasty on character, not talent 5:10 Missing the draft, choosing his own…
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