How to Be Awesome at Your Job

957: How to Push Past Discomfort and Expand Your Comfort Zone with Dr. Marc Schoen

Apr 29, 2024

43:33

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Dr. Marc Schoen talks about embracing discomfort to enhance performance, managing discomfort using techniques like breathing exercises and hypno meditation, exploring the impact of hypnosis on psychological and physical levels, and evaluating hypnosis for various scenarios such as reducing cigarette cravings and improving sleep.

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Embracing discomfort is crucial for enhancing performance and requires creating a physical and emotional state in the brain to neutralize fear responses.

Challenging comfort zones is essential to prevent mental health issues and optimize performance by managing discomfort effectively.

Utilizing hypnosis and breathing techniques can aid in neutralizing fear responses, enhancing performance, and building resilience in challenging situations.

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Importance of Embracing Discomfort for Performance

Embracing discomfort is crucial for enhancing performance, with reactions to discomfort being pivotal. Dr. Mark Schoen reveals that managing discomfort effectively involves creating a physical and emotional state in the brain to neutralize fear responses. Cases with the Special Forces and general infantry show that training can enable individuals to parlay stress into productive action, leading to improved stress management.

Embrace Emotional Duality

01:21

Hypnosis: A Precision Tool for Transformation

01:28

Introduction

4min

Managing Discomfort and Expanding Comfort Zones

24min

Exploring the Impact of Hypnosis on Psychological and Physical Levels

2min

Exploring the Power of Hypnosis for Managing Fear and Improving Job Performance

2min

Evaluation of Hypnosis for Various Scenarios

2min

Navigating Distractions and Building Resilience

2min

Managing High Blood Pressure and Embracing Discomfort

5min

Exploring Breathing Techniques and Hypnotizability

3min

Dr. Marc Schoen discusses the critical role discomfort plays in our lives—and offers powerful techniques for getting better at managing it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why we need more—not less—discomfort

2) Everyday techniques to build your discomfort tolerance

3) The 45-second trick that helps you handle stress better

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— ABOUT MARC —

Dr. Marc Schoen is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine where he specializes in Boosting Performance and Decision Making Under Pressure and Mind-Body Medicine. He works extensively with elite athletes, professional and college, as well as, executives and UCLA medical students in strengthening their ability to thrive under pressure, and in competitive and uncomfortable conditions. His method of Discomfort Training and Pilates for the Brain builds hardiness and resilience, by rewiring the fear region of the brain which is responsible for Performance Under Pressure.

• Book: "Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear and Build Resilience"

• Tool: Boosting Job Performance hypnosis audio download

• Technique: The Schoen Breath Technique

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: "The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self" by Michael Easter

• Book: "The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself" by Michael A. Singer

• App: Breathwork

• Spiegel Eye Roll test demonstration video and grading chart

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