#110: Mental Toughness Isn't What You Think
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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We're diving deep into the 6 steps we all need to take if we want to develop more mental toughness, including becoming a learner, expecting adversity, and killing the critic.
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| 0:00.0 | I just want to kind of put a further defined mental toughness. |
| 0:02.8 | I want people to understand that it's not going to come through |
| 0:05.1 | like the kid that runs extra sprints after practice. |
| 0:08.0 | Man, the kid is so mentally tough. |
| 0:09.9 | This is what coaches say. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.9 | When the race is on the line, |
| 0:14.3 | the kid that pushes the hardest hands |
| 0:15.8 | are lungs bleeding and like that's so mentally tough. |
| 0:19.0 | That's physical toughness. |
| 0:21.7 | Mental toughness is this zen like unraddleable. |
| 0:25.8 | You can't be shaken. |
| 0:28.0 | No matter what somebody does to you, |
| 0:30.0 | you can't be flustered. |
| 0:32.4 | You don't get frustrated. |
| 0:33.8 | You don't get thrown off your game. |
| 0:36.5 | Doesn't matter if you're down by 20 points. |
| 0:38.9 | Doesn't matter if you've experienced |
| 0:40.1 | three failures in a row. |
| 0:41.3 | Doesn't matter if we ask you to do this undontained task. |
| 0:44.0 | Doesn't matter if the social media haters say this, |
| 0:46.8 | that or the other thing, |
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