My main takeaways:
- Happiness in life comes from finding your passion and doing it every day
- "Those hard moments in life are what define you, and if you can help navigate a kid through those moments, it's going to make him such a better person going forward."
- The kids who make it toughest are the ones who need their teachers/coaches the most (Click to Tweet)
- They have to know that you care before they'll care what you know
- Educators need to build that level of trust where kids feel comfortable opening up
#33 featured Nick Cook, who is the head strength & conditioning coach and head football coach at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy in Northeast Ohio. Nick Cook has experience as a teacher, coach, and school principal.
My main takeaways:
- Leaders are making certain decisions where they're choosing between bad and worst
- Timeless role of teachers/coaches: Helping kids build & discover their purpose in life
- A vigorous body helps create a vigorous mind
- Having a centralized approach to physically training kids can have a measurable, science-based, & research backed impact on their mental health (Click to Tweet)
- Research is showing the more intensely a person exercises, the better the brain functions
