The Six Mental Muscles of Mental Strength

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Fortitude embodies the capacity to overcome challenges and persist towards achievement despite adversity. Confidence involves recognizing and managing one's relationship with doubt rather than striving for its absence. Boldness encourages growth by pushing individuals beyond their comfort zones and stimulating innovative thinking. The messaging muscle emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive and engaged demeanor, especially in leadership roles, to inspire and uplift others during challenging times. Effective decision-making requires self-regulation to combat emotional biases and undisciplined thinking, ensuring high-quality choices. Finally, goal focus is the ability to maintain concentration on essential objectives, disregarding distractions that could derail progress. Together, these six mental muscles—fortitude, confidence, boldness, messaging, decision-making, and goal focus—constitute the foundation of mental strength and high achievement.

Scott Mautz shares powerful strategies to stay confident and in control when negativity strikes.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to wisely managed doubt–and confidence

2) The early warning signs of self-acceptance being degraded

3) The three-step solution to reset negative chatter

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— ABOUT SCOTT —

Scott Mautz is a high-octane speaker expert at igniting peak performance and deep employee engagement, motivation, and inspiration. He’s a Procter & Gamble veteran who successfully ran several of the company’s largest multi-billion dollar businesses, an award-winning/best-selling author, faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business for Executive Education, a popular instructor on LinkedIn Learning where his courses have been taken over 1.5 million times, and a frequent national publication and podcast guest.

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• Article: “Following the 90:10 Rule Will Make You Noticeably More Self-Confident”

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