Eric Potterat
Performance psychologist, former Navy commander
Eric Potterat is a performance psychologist who spent ten years as the psychologist for the US Navy SEALs. He is the author of Learned Excellence.
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About Eric Potterat
Eric Potterat, PhD, is a clinical and performance psychologist. He retired from the US Navy as a commander after twenty years of service. In his last ten years there he worked as psychologist for the Navy SEALs and created their mental toughness curriculum. He has also spent several years as director of specialized performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has worked with Red Bull athletes, the US Women's national soccer team and the Miami Heat, as well as Olympians, first responders, business leaders and astronauts at NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). He has served as performance psychologist on teams that won a Major League Baseball World Series and a Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. His book Learned Excellence is part of our catalog.