#179 Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In the first of a special two-part episode, celebrated performance psychologist Gio Valiante calls on his vast experience working with some of the world’s top athletes and entrepreneurs. Shane and Valiante discuss developing discipline and resilience in work and life. Valiante offers his thoughts on the five ways to gain an advantage and win and how to change your habits. He also discusses the role your environment plays in discipline and how you can develop resilience in yourself and your children.

Valiante is regarded as one of the most successful performance coaches in the world. He’s worked extensively with golfers on the PGA and LPGA Tours, Olympic athletes, and leading figures in NCAA football and the NFL, where he served as the Head Performance Coach of the Buffalo Bills. He has also logged over 5,000 hours coaching some of the most sophisticated investors in the world, including hedge fund manager Steve Cohen.

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0:00.0	And so discipline is just a habit of mind that evolves into a habit generally of behavior.
0:05.8	And so when you're trying to give someone more discipline, one of the things that's really,
0:09.9	really important is right out of the gates is to change the actual behavior because as Albert
0:15.9	Banderra famously said, you know, behavior is a cause of behavior. Like the more you can get
0:20.8	someone to do something, the more likely it is to repeat. So the reality about discipline is
0:26.8	that quicker you can get it infused into someone's habits, the more likely it is they're
0:31.9	going to sustain it through life. If you're trying to change habits later in life, you got to go
0:36.0	all in and as soon as you're aware that you want to change them, don't wait. Don't hesitate.
0:57.4	Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best of what other people have
1:03.1	already figured out so you can apply their insights to your life. I'm your host, Shane Parish.
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1:45.2	In the first of a special two-part episode on the Knowledge Project,
1:50.4	celebrated performance psychologist Dr. Geo Valiente calls on his vast experience working with
1:57.4	some of the world's top athletes and entrepreneurs to discuss how to develop discipline and resilience
2:03.7	in work and life. Dr. Geo also offers his thoughts on the five ways to gain an advantage and win,
2:11.0	changing your habits, the role your environment plays in discipline and how we can develop
2:16.0	resilience in ourselves and our children. He's regarded as one of the most successful performance
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