506: The 7 key principles to success | Sportswriter & NYT bestselling author Sally Jenkins

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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“Failure is a necessary precondition for success," says Sally Jenkins. Sally, a sports columnist for The Washington Post for over 20 years, joins us to discuss everything she’s learned about grit, motivation, and burnout, plus: - How to cultivate resilience (~00:04) - Scarcity vs. abundance mindsets (~03:57) - What wildly successful athletes have in common (~05:59) - How to become a great leader (~11:37) - The most standout athletes Sally has ever met (~13:27) - Natural talent vs. ambition and grit (~17:34) - The secret to making hard work look easy (~22:14) - How to train like an elite athlete (~24:36) - The mental health epidemic among athletes (~26:29) - The power of visualization (~29:56) - How to reach your full potential (~32:03) - How to identify & overcome burnout (~33:37) - The fundamentals of decision making (~39:23) - What to do if you struggle with motivation (~42:26) - How to stick to a workout routine (~45:56) - Sally’s dream interview (~47:58) - The most overrated & underrated athlete (~52:51) - Where Sally wants the sports conversation to go (~55:31) Referenced in the episode: - Sally's book, The Right Call. - Read Sally's work. - Sign up for The Long Game. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:47.1	Hey everyone, we may not know the secret sauce to success, but looking to wildly successful people
0:52.8	can help you find inspiration. As a calmness and feature writer for the Washington Post for more
0:58.2	than 20 years, Sally Jenkins has had a front row seat to some of the most successful athletes
1:04.4	in the world, including Steve Kerr, Peyton Manning, LeBron James, and the list goes on and on.
1:10.6	Sally is a sports writer and bestselling author of 12 books. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer
1:17.1	Prize in 2020 and was the first woman to be inducted in the national sports writers and sports
1:23.2	casters Hall of Fame in 2005. In today's episode, Sally and I talk about everything she's learned
1:29.7	about grit, motivation, and burnout from interviewing countless elite athletes. Look, this episode is not
1:36.8	just for people who love sports. It's an episode for anyone looking to visualize their goals and
1:42.4	elevate their game. Your health game very much included. So at the highest level, what can us mere
1:50.5	mortals learn from all these elite athletes you've studied and chronicles in your book?
1:57.2	I would say the main thing we should be borrowing from them is the fact that they're not as
2:02.5	easily destroyed as the rest of us by a setback. Their persistence is really the main takeaway for me.
2:10.5	The rest of us meet in obstacle or a setback and we go, well, yeah, I guess we're not quite good
2:15.5	enough or I guess it's just not going to happen. And the athletes at the top level that I've covered,
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