Coach Greg Harden On The Mindset Of Champions
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Greg Harden about how Stoicism influenced his new book Stay Sane in an Insane World: How to Control the Controllables and Thrive, the techniques that he has used to coach so many sports greats to the highest levels of success, the difference between confidence and ego, why Tom Brady likes The Obstacle Is The Way, and more.
Greg Harden is a life coach, motivational speaker and executive consultant who is best known for his work with 7-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady, Heisman Trophy winner and Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard, and 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. He began work as a student-athlete counselor in 1986 when legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler brought him in after hearing of the work that Greg was doing in the local community as a clinical therapist. Greg also provides performance coaching to corporate executives and community leaders, and he has trained hundreds of managers and administrators on ‘managing trouble employees’. His work can be found at gregharden.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:12.6 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:18.5 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known |
| 0:27.5 | and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. |
| 0:30.7 | With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are |
| 0:35.6 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:44.1 | Hey, it's Ryan Holliday, welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:02.2 | We spent a good chunk of this year trying to build out this like new studio for the podcast |
| 1:06.2 | and you've probably seen some of them on YouTube or on Instagram, it's awesome, but it's |
| 1:11.0 | kind of been one problem after another in the sense that the AC went out, this is like |
| 1:16.2 | this 100-plus year old building and then we were doing some renovations on the office |
| 1:19.2 | space. |
| 1:20.2 | And so we ended up having to do today's episode in the bookstore itself. |
| 1:24.6 | So it's a, I've really got into this conversation, I'll tell you about it in a second, but it's |
| 1:30.5 | always hard to watch people trying to come into the bookstore, the door is locked, I'm |
| 1:34.6 | trying to focus on the guest. |
| 1:36.6 | This was like the whole point of making the space to begin with, but this is what Stoicism |
| 1:43.1 | is, that the most minor of minor levels, which is you adapt, improvise, you make do, you |
| 1:48.2 | accept, you resign yourself, this is a reality of the situation, how can I be in do good |
| 1:54.2 | inside of it, in big things and small and this episode I think came out really great, |
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