Ep. 543 | What Special Forces and MLB Stars Share: The Uncomfortable Truth About High Performance with Philadelphia Phillies Director of Mental Performance Cecilia Craft
What does it really take to perform at the highest level? Cecilia Craft, Director of Mental Performance for the Philadelphia Phillies, reveals uncomfortable truths about elite performance. Drawing from her experience in MLB and Special Forces, she challenges common beliefs about high performance and mental health.
Learn:
Why being well-rounded might be holding you back from peak performance
The counterintuitive relationship between mental health and elite achievement
A surprising truth about self-awareness in top performers
The real price of becoming world-class at anything
Why there are no shortcuts to mastery in any field
ABOUT Cecilia Craft
Cecilia (Ceci) Craft is the Director of Mental Performance, Life Skills and Education for the Philadelphia Phillies. She received her B.A. from Bates College in Maine where she captained the women’s soccer team in 2005. She then went on to attend the University of Wales, Bangor, one of the premier Sports Science institutions in Britain. At Bangor she received her MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Science. Ceci’s work at the University of Wales, Bangor focused mostly on Transformational Leadership Behaviors and its effects on role function within a team.
Ceci has spent a combined 10 seasons as a mental performance coach in Major League Baseball. She spent her first 6 seasons with the Cleveland Guardians and the past four seasons coaching the Phillies.
As a mental performance coach Ceci assisted players and staff at the Major League level of the organization in the continued development and integration of programs and services that enhance performance and mental and emotional development. She also has recently taken on directing the Life Skills and Education Program supporting Phillies players in learning English, completing high school and having basic life skills to compete both in the Dominican Republic and the United States.
Ceci previously worked for the United States Army for a combined seven years from 2008-14, 2019-2021 working for the Special Warfare Center and School, primarily with Special Forces soldiers, and was the “Head of Performance” for the Special Operations Cognitive Enhancement Program (SOCEP), and went on to direct the program.
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