Exploring the concept of self-rewarding based on effort, embracing stress as a tool for mindset enhancement, and reviewing insights from a climbing book. The episode emphasizes valuing effort over outcomes and highlights the importance of embracing challenges for long-term progress.
Reward effort, not just outcomes, for sustained progress.
Acknowledge stress as a positive enhancer for mindset and goals.
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Embracing Effort Over Outcome for Long-Term Progress
The podcast episode emphasizes the importance of rewarding oneself based on effort rather than outcome. It discusses how the emphasis on outcomes like winning races or achieving goals may not be the best way to support progress. Instead, the concept of a stress-enhancing mindset is introduced, which involves leveraging stress positively to achieve goals. Dr. Crump outlines a three-step process to adopt this mindset by acknowledging stress, welcoming it, and utilizing it to achieve goals.
Rewarding Sincere Effort for Sustainable Practice
The episode highlights the significance of rewarding sincere efforts to sustain motivation in challenging or stressful situations. It suggests that focusing solely on outcomes, such as winning competitions, may lead to disappointment. By valuing the effort put into activities, individuals can find fulfillment and positive trajectories for future progress. The importance of clear intent and taking pride in the quality of actions over mere completion is emphasized.
Balancing Effort and Outcome in Daily Life
The discussion extends beyond physical activities to daily life, emphasizing the need to value efforts over expected outcomes. It warns against being solely task-oriented without finding joy or quality in the process, as it can lead to a perpetual cycle of unfulfilled tasks. The episode advocates for finding a balance between disciplined effort and enjoying the journey to avoid losing depth in experiences.
In this episode Wil and Harvey discuss the concept of self-reward based on effort rather than outcome, with Wil suggesting this approach could support long-term practice and progress. We also touch upon the importance of acknowledging and owning stress as an enhancer to mindset, as introduced by Dr. Crumb. Lastly, they reviewed a section from the book, "9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistakes."
This is the third part of the progress series and rounds up nicely a few pragmatic intentions in order to get the most from your practice.
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