Today’s guest is someone I’ve known for years: Brock Schenck.
I first met Brock through youth sports. My son Danny was a year older, but Brock always played up—and he was a problem on the basketball court. More importantly, he was always the same dude off the court: respectful, disciplined, shook your hand, looked you in the eye.
But Brock’s story really becomes powerful when you hear what he’s been through.
Over four years, Brock had four knee surgeries:
7th grade: tore his ACL
8th grade: tore the other ACL
Freshman year: surgery to clean up scar tissue
Junior year: tore his ACL again
And most people would’ve quit.
Brock didn’t.
Instead, when football and basketball started slipping away, he reinvented himself. He picked up track & field throwing, became a beginner again, and worked his way into competing at a Division I level at the University of Virginia, throwing discus, shot put, and hammer.
The moment Brock realized his athletic future might change
How he handled going through injury after injury without spiraling
What kept him motivated when he could’ve walked away
Starting over as a novice in a totally new sport
Discipline: why it isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build
College athletics: the habits that separate the athletes who last from the ones who fade
The quote that stuck with Brock: “What you’re not changing, you’re choosing.”
Brock said the biggest change was this:
Stop living in “what if.”
Start living in “even if.”
Not what if I didn’t get hurt…
But even if I got hurt, how am I going to respond?
That right there will change how you handle everything.
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