What You're Actually After

When You Ask What's Next

For the athlete who left the game and never quite came home.

"You've been running at game speed for so long
you think it's just who you are.
It isn't."

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"You solved every problem in your career with more effort. More reps, more film, more hours, more grit. This is the first problem that effort makes worse."

What this is

Not advice.
Not a pep talk.

This is a piece of writing for athletes who walked away from their career and kept the engine running. I's not a framework or a system. Just a very precise description of what's happening underneath a life after sports that looks fine and doesn't feel that way.

It doesn't hand you the next thing to chase — intentionally — and ends on a question worth sitting with. If it's for you, you'll recognize yourself in the first few paragraphs.

About the author

Chad Sasaki

I played hockey into my mid-twenties, and nearly every shift was a bid for approval. Perform, prove, compare. It had to be taken away for me to see just how far from myself I'd drifted.

Now I work with former athletes on the part of life that nobody trained them for: who they are after the game, when no one's keeping score.

This piece is what I wish someone had handed me when the final horn sounded.

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