652: The Nine Mindset Shifts for Your Best Preparation and Performance with Brian Levenson

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Brian Levenson shares the key mental shifts that elite athletes use to prepare and perform at the highest levels--and work for professionals too!

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to get into the elite performer mindsets

2) When it pays to be arrogant

3) The visualization hack used by elite athletes

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— ABOUT BRIAN —

Brian Levenson is the founder of Strong Skills, which provides executive coaching and mental performance coaching, speaking and consulting to elite organizations, performers and leaders. He has been fortunate to work with CEO’s, professional athletes and with teams in the NBA, NHL, and MLS, Division 1 athletic departments, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Homeland Security, Hilton, Disney, Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and many other organizations.

Brian has a weekly podcast, Intentional Performers, where he interviews a diverse group of elite high performers. Brian has a weekly newsletter called Brian’s Message of the Week, which shares articles, videos, podcasts, and information to subscribers. Brian also created an assessment tool called the Self Belief Inventory which is used by elite athletes, executives, and organizations. His book, Shift Your Mind, was released in October of 2020.

Brian currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and two kids.

• Book: Shift Your Mind: 9 Mental Shifts to Thrive in Preparation and Performance

• LinkedIn: Brian Levenson

• Twitter: @BrianLevenson

• Website: StrongSkills.co

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “When Being a Humble Leader Backfires” by Jia Hu, Berrin Erdogan, Kaifeng Jiang, and Talya N. Bauer

• App: Pocket

• Book: Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

• Book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

• Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

• Book: The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose by Chris Wilson

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:16.1	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 652 with Brian Levinson.
0:24.0	I don't know if you have noticed this, but it seems like a lot of advice out there
0:30.0	can potentially be contradictory.
0:32.4	Even on this very podcast, you get 652 voices, well, some of them might sound like
0:37.3	they're at times saying, in fact, the opposite thing, how do you make sense of that?
0:41.6	Well, Brian has got a fantastic model here, which helps really zoom in on the distinctions
0:49.1	between, hey, am I in a preparation mode or am I in a performance mode?
0:53.4	And then what are some of the best ways to be that are really suitable and appropriate?
0:58.7	And helpful if you're rocking and rolling in the prep phase or it's go time in the performance
1:04.3	phase.
1:05.3	You'll learn one, how to get into the elite performer mindsets, two, when it pays off to
1:10.5	be arrogant, and three, the visualization hack used by elite athletes.
1:14.9	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to ads you've
1:17.7	referenced, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 652.
1:23.4	And if you had awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out one of our coolest resources,
1:27.3	which is the Goldnugget email list.
1:28.9	You can get summary insights from every guest, the day the episode goes live, as well as
1:34.9	access to the archive of all of the guests who showed up before that day.
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