957: How to Push Past Discomfort and Expand Your Comfort Zone with Dr. Marc Schoen

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Marc Schoen discusses the critical role discomfort plays in our lives—and offers powerful techniques for getting better at managing it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why we need more—not less—discomfort

2) Everyday techniques to build your discomfort tolerance

3) The 45-second trick that helps you handle stress better

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— ABOUT MARC —

Dr. Marc Schoen is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine where he specializes in Boosting Performance and Decision Making Under Pressure and Mind-Body Medicine. He works extensively with elite athletes, professional and college, as well as, executives and UCLA medical students in strengthening their ability to thrive under pressure, and in competitive and uncomfortable conditions. His method of Discomfort Training and Pilates for the Brain builds hardiness and resilience, by rewiring the fear region of the brain which is responsible for Performance Under Pressure.

• Book: "Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear and Build Resilience"

• Tool: Boosting Job Performance hypnosis audio download

• Technique: The Schoen Breath Technique

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: "The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self" by Michael Easter

• Book: "The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself" by Michael A. Singer

• App: Breathwork

• Spiegel Eye Roll test demonstration video and grading chart

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to be Awesome at your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	We all should be feeling some amount of discomfort.
0:11.0	And it's not the discomfort alone that impairs performance is that it's our reaction to
0:19.7	discomfort. Theing goal is not to banish discomfort. The goal is to make it. So
0:29.7	discomfort does not experience as a threat and therefore push the fear response.
0:37.8	It is possible to create a physical emotional state in the brain that neutralizes the fear region of the brain.
0:48.4	That's Dr. Mark Schoen. He's an assistant clinical professor at UCLA and a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in mind-body medicine.
0:57.0	He works with the lead athletes and executives to help them thrive in high pressure, competitive, and uncomfortable conditions.
1:04.0	Today he shared his best insights for persisting through discomfort
1:07.2	and expanding your comfort zone.
1:09.3	So you'll learn one, why we need more and not less discomfort.
1:12.8	Two, everyday techniques to build your discomfort tolerance
1:16.1	and three, the 45 second trick that helps you handle stress better.
1:20.0	I'm Pete McKitus, this is how to be awesome at your job.
1:22.6	And now, here's Dr. Mark Schoen.
1:25.2	Mark, welcome.
1:26.4	Yes, very fun to be here.
1:28.8	I'm so excited to dig into your wisdom.
1:31.4	I have listened to your book. Your survival instinct is killing you. Retrain your. your soothing I guess that's the hypnotist in you. But I would love to kick us off by hearing
1:47.2	what's a particularly striking surprising counterintuitive discovery you've made about us humans and how we perform best
1:55.8	in your many years of working in mind body medicine. The biggest discovery I would
2:01.6	say is that I was trained to believe that performance really
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