405: How to Be Happy in Life & Work: Stop Trying So Hard with Edward Slingerland
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
If you're a podcast listener, you're probably an overachiever, just like me, and thousands of other listeners out there. That's not a bad thing. Striving to do better work, accomplish more, get leaner and healthier, and be a better person is what we do. But trying too hard all the time can lead to a massive crash. In this episode, our guest Edward Slingerland, reveals how we can effortlessly live happier and fulfilled lives. Listen now!
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| 0:00.0 | That's probably more appropriate when you're either a child, so you're kind of you need to learn things, |
| 0:10.6 | make to learn skills and knowledge, or at an early stage of acquiring a new skill, |
| 0:16.4 | like if you try to learn how to play tennis or something, you need to really try because you can't |
| 0:21.1 | just start trying to be away and play tennis |
| 0:24.4 | you have no tennis training. But then as you get the technical skills down you |
| 0:29.8 | get to a point where the biggest barrier to success is not your lack of skill, it's your trying too hard, it's your mental barriers. |
| 0:40.0 | And this is why I think if you look at professional tennis players, for instance, they're all just wildly skilled. |
| 0:47.0 | They've all been training and sesamely since they were kids. |
| 0:50.0 | When they lose, who loses often really comes down to who falls out of away first |
| 0:57.8 | you know who starts to choke who starts to think about their serve too much. Their biggest enemy is themselves psychologically. |
| 1:08.5 | What's up my friend and welcome back |
| 1:10.0 | to another episode of the Legendary Live podcast. |
| 1:13.3 | I'm health expert Ted Rice, and today I'm coming to you |
| 1:16.6 | from Vero Beach, Florida. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm back in the United States, back from Colombia, and I'm super excited to bring this episode to you today |
| 1:26.1 | because I have Ted Slinger-Linn on the show he is the author of one of the most underrated high performance books I've ever read |
| 1:37.1 | called Trying Not to Try. So let me ask you this. have you ever felt like I can accomplish things, but I have to work so hard to make it make them happen? |
| 1:49.0 | I feel like I'm working so hard, I feel like I'm burning myself out. |
| 1:53.0 | How can I be more effortless in my approach to achieving my goals? |
| 1:59.0 | That's what we're going to dive into today. |
| 2:02.0 | We're going to talk about neuroscience, |
| 2:05.0 | the neuroscience of high performance. |
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