207: Getting Psyched Up For High Performance with Daniel McGinn

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 20 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Harvard Business Review editor Dan McGinn applies techniques from athletes, musicians, the military, and more to get yourself psyched for success. You'll Learn: How to amp up confidence and dial down anxiety How to psych yourself up with your own “greatest hits” The best pump up music there is About Daniel: Daniel McGinn is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, where he edits the IdeaWatch and How I Did It sections, manages the magazine’s annual Best Performing CEOs in the World ranking, and edits feature articles on topics including negotiation, sales, and entrepreneurship. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep207 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Machitis.
0:16.0	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 207 with Dan McGinn.
0:26.5	Dan is talking about getting psyched up, how it's done and why it's powerful.
0:31.8	I hope there's things in life right now that are
0:33.5	getting you psyched up. I am psyched up because on the day this
0:38.1	releases is my birthday, so that's fun. Yay! And I'm also psyched up because we bought a place, we moved in and there's a multiple
0:46.5	levels. So on the second floor, you've been doing all these renovations and now it's ready to rent
0:50.9	out, which is cool. So if you know someone in Chicago who
0:54.0	would like to have a charming three bedroom home a four minute walk from the
0:59.4	brown line send them to meet Pete at awesome at your job dot com And I'm also psyched up for just this episode,
1:04.8	which is a whole lot of fun and valuable conversation.
1:07.4	So you'll learn one, how to amp up confidence and dial down anxiety.
1:11.4	Two, how to psych yourself up with your own greatest hits and three, the best
1:16.4	pump up music there is. So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the
1:20.9	links to items that we've referenced here.
1:22.5	It's on over at awesome at your job.com slash Epp 207.
1:28.1	Here is Dan's story.
1:29.8	Daniel McKinn is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, where he edits The Ideal Watch and
1:34.6	How I Did It, Sections, manages the magazine's annual best-performing CEOs in the world
1:39.2	ranking, and edits feature articles on topics including negotiation, sales, and entrepreneurship.
1:45.6	He's the author of multiple books including psyched up. Now here's Dan.
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