204: Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, with Amy Morin

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Amy Morin Author, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do* Amy is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and the author of the book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do.* She dealt with a lot of personal tragedy in her life in a short period of time, and realized that having good habits wasn’t enough. She also had to get rid of bad habits. In 2013, she wrote the list, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. It went viral and was read and shared by millions of people in a matter of days. They Don’t Give Away Their Power “While other people can influence you, they can’t make you feel anything.” -Amy Morin They Don’t Resent Other People’s Success “When you want to change how you feel, the two things you need to change are how you think and how you behave.” -Amy Morin They Don’t Give Up After the First Failure They don’t view failure as a reason to give up. Instead, they use failure as an opportunity to grow and improve. They are willing to keep trying until they get it right. “The fear of failure keeps us from trying our best.” -Amy Morin They Don’t Feel the World Owes Them Anything They Don’t Expect Immediate Results “A lot of us give up when we don’t see huge, drastic results really fast.” -Amy Morin Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	What can you do if you want to be more mentally strong?
0:04.3	Well, one way to look at it is not what to do, but what not to do.
0:10.0	On today's show, a guest with me to teach all of us what the mentally strong people don't do.
0:18.0	This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 204.
0:22.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:27.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:30.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:37.0	Yes, you can lead and this weekly show at the intersection of business and education will give you the tools
0:45.4	and resources to do exactly that. And I'm glad that you tuned in today because
0:50.6	this week's show I have a guest with us that is going to provide the kind of perspective
0:58.0	that I know will be really helpful to us on a practical level of what we can do to be mentally strong and not only what we can do but also what we shouldn't do and I'm really thrilled to welcome Amy more into the show.
1:12.8	Amy is a licensed clinical social worker,
1:16.0	a psychotherapist, and she is the author of the book
1:19.8	Thirteen Things Mentally Strong people don't do.
1:24.0	She dealt with a lot of personal tragedy in her life in a short period of time
1:29.0	and she realized that having good habits wasn't enough. She also had to get rid of the bad
1:35.2	habits. So in 2013 she wrote the list and posted it online called 13 things
1:41.4	mentally strong people don't do and it went viral and was
1:45.9	read and shared by millions of people in a matter of days in fact some of you may have
1:49.9	seen that online Amy that must have been a really interesting experience to post something online and then all of a sudden have
1:56.7	millions of people reading what you wrote.
1:59.8	It was really surreal.
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