The Verywell Mind Podcast

180 - The Science Behind Doing Hard Things with Human Performance Expert Steve Magness

Jun 27, 2022

36:34

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Parenting

02:45

Finding Meaning and Purpose in Your Pursuits

02:10

Three of Steve's Mental Strength Building Strategies That I Highly Recommend

05:11

Introduction

2min

Do Hard Things by Brad Stalberg

2min

How Much Is Really Mental Than Physical?

2min

Do Hard Things?

4min

Wead Out to Weak People, Right?

2min

Real Confidence

2min

Real Toughness Is Accepting the Difficult Thing

2min

Navigating That Inner Voice in Our Heads

2min

The Power of Saying Things Out Loud

2min

10.

How to Stop a Spiraling Avalanche

2min

11.

How to Deal With Anxiety?

3min

12.

The Nuance of the Emotions

2min

13.

Finding Meaning and Purpose in Your Pursuits

2min

14.

Parenting

3min

15.

Three of Steve's Mental Strength Building Strategies That I Highly Recommend

5min

Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on human performance. He’s been a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top NBA teams.

He co-authored Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox with our former guest Brad Stulberg. He also wrote The Science of Running, and now he has a new book called Do Hard Things.

He shares today why our brains work so hard to keep us inside our comfort zones, how to change our inner dialogue, and what happens when we push ourselves to do hard things.

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