Benchmark: Mental Toughness Isn't What You Think
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We're revisiting our most popular episode ever to kick 2022 off right, diving into the 6 steps we need to take to develop more mental toughness, including becoming a learner, expecting adversity, and killing the critic.
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👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.
👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome back to Chasing Excellence Patrick here with an introduction to this week's show, but first |
| 0:07.4 | Happy New Year. Hope your holidays have been well |
| 0:11.6 | We are going back into our benchmark series |
| 0:15.0 | Which is when I go through the archives of the show and I find some of the most impactful some of the the keystone |
| 0:22.0 | Episodes that we have recorded and put out and as I was going back and looking for what I wanted to put out this week |
| 0:28.8 | It struck me as perhaps the most appropriate time to revisit this conversation that Ben and I had in February of 2020 |
| 0:38.2 | On the on the subject of mental toughness. It is by far our most popular episode |
| 0:44.8 | And so as we kick off this new year and as we get our minds right for the year to come |
| 0:50.3 | I wanted to revisit this conversation |
| 0:53.2 | If it's your first time listening to it |
| 0:55.2 | I hope you enjoy it. It comes off the back of a TEDx talk that Ben gave that you can find |
| 1:01.1 | If this is the second time, I hope this is just as impactful as the first time you listen to it |
| 1:05.9 | Thank you all so much for listening for your ratings for your reviews |
| 1:10.4 | Ben and I will be back next week with a new episode of Chasing Excellence |
| 1:13.7 | But until then enjoy this conversation on why mental toughness is not what you think it is |
| 1:19.8 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control |
| 1:26.1 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other |
| 1:31.3 | Is how we'll optimize our health and happiness |
| 1:34.4 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible |
| 1:38.5 | Our mission is to live on the run |
| 1:41.2 | Always chasing, never stop |
| 1:44.6 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence |
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