ATG 290 | Bravery is More Muscle Than Magic: How to Practice Being Brave This Week

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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You're either practicing bravery or you're practicing fear. There's no neutral when it comes to mindset. In this fourth episode of the Bravest Summer Ever series, I'm breaking down the third key to bravery: practice. Research shows that just 5 minutes of negative news makes people more depressed, less likely to help others, and convinced the world is a negative place. When you binge the news, scroll political tweets, or read angry Facebook posts, you're practicing fear. So how do you practice...

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0:00.0	If you read my new book, you'll never procrastinate again. I should know, I waited 34 years before I finally wrote my first one.
0:07.8	When I discovered what's inside these pages, I wrote 11 more. You see, we procrastinators have a storehouse of creativity and energy we haven't tapped into.
0:18.7	You're sitting on a gold mine right now, and the system to unlock it
0:23.3	doesn't require a crushing amount of willpower. Life is already preset to hard. Why would we use a system
0:30.9	that makes it harder? You need something that works on the days you have zero willpower,
0:36.0	just as well as it does on the days you're at a
0:38.5	hundred percent because procrastination is the most expensive fear the price tag is your life
0:45.4	and every day you wait to begin you're stealing from your future self my new book procrastination
0:51.2	proof is available now and it gives you four simple permissions
0:54.9	to beat procrastination for good. Pick up your copy today at johnacoff.com slash proof or wherever you
1:02.5	buy books. Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes the Goal Podcast. I've spent the last 15 years
1:08.7	helping more than a million people achieve everything from their
1:11.4	smallest first step to their wildest dreams. Building a remarkable life is simple. Great thoughts
1:16.7	turn into great actions. Great actions turn into great results. What you think becomes what you do
1:22.8	becomes what you get. That's what we explore on this podcast. I'm your host John Aikoff and today we're
1:30.7	talking about bravery. In fact, we're doing a five episode series called Bravest Summer Ever.
1:37.5	Boom, bum, bum, that's kind of my homemade theme song. This is episode four. But don't worry,
1:43.5	you won't be lost if you haven't listened to episode one, two, or three. I can't stand where I jump into the middle of a podcast series and they're like, go back and listen to 42 other episodes. I don't know. Who's got time for that? You can certainly go back if you'd like to. The episodes are right there. It's's easy to find it's easy to navigate but
2:01.0	even if you haven't listened to a single episode in this series you will not be lost today
2:06.4	you'll get a ton out of this one because these are all standalone ideas now what we've been
2:17.4	talking about over the last few weeks are the three keys to bravery.
2:22.8	Bravery is often kind of a fuzzy topic.
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