Craig Manning: Mastering the Mind
All In
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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Did you know research has shown that people who can control their minds have the greatest success in life? In fact, mental strength is a stronger indicator of success than IQ or the economic status of the family one grows up in. So how do we develop mental strength and what does it have to do with faith? Today, we talk with Latter-day Saint Dr. Craig Manning, who has helped some of the greatest athletes in the world answer these questions.
“If you are willing to do the mental work, you can really do a lot with what you’ve been given.”
Show Notes
3:33- Always Comes Back to the Mind
8:10- Mental Traits of Champions
12:05- Roadblocks to Reaching Potential
13:24- The Danger of Doubt
17:33- Can Faith and Fear Co-Exist?
23:24- Who Are We At Our Core?
25:32- Take No Thought For The Morrow
30:40- Truth Is In The Middle
40:52- Faith Begins With How You Talk To Yourself
43:14- Mental Skills and Rapid Progression in Life
44:33- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | If you're like me, you're currently suffering from withdrawals at the conclusion of the NBA |
| 0:05.3 | finals and the Olympics. It is my hope that this week's episode and next week's episode, |
| 0:11.3 | as well as a bonus episode in between, will fill that void for you. In a talk he gave at BYU in |
| 0:18.6 | 2017, Craig Manning quoted the lectures on faith, which said, |
| 0:23.4 | If men were duly to consider themselves and turn their thoughts and reflections to the operations |
| 0:30.1 | of their own minds, they would readily discover that it is faith and faith only, which is the moving |
| 0:36.1 | cause of all action in them. That without it, both mind and body would be in a state of inactivity |
| 0:43.4 | and all their exertions would cease, both physical and mental. Dr. Manning then said, |
| 0:49.6 | My personal interpretation of this passage is that we don't do anything without first putting |
| 0:55.2 | in the mental effort. If we are not mentally engaged, we do nothing or at best we do very little. |
| 1:02.6 | Dr. Craig Manning's experience as a professional tennis player led him to become naturally curious |
| 1:08.8 | about the effect of the mind on performance. He earned a PhD in sports psychology from the University |
| 1:15.5 | of Utah and has since worked with the US ski and snowboarding teams, multiple NBA teams, |
| 1:22.0 | including the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks, as well as many companies worldwide. He is the author |
| 1:29.5 | of the fearless mind, five essential steps to higher performance. |
| 1:38.9 | This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be |
| 1:44.8 | All-In, the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Jones and I am so honored to have Dr. Craig Manning |
| 1:50.9 | on the line with me today, Dr. Manning, welcome. Thanks Morgan, appreciate it. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:56.7 | Well, this is such a treat for me. I told Dr. Manning before we got started that I |
| 2:02.6 | listened to a bunch of things that he has done this week in preparation and just every single thing |
| 2:08.1 | I was like, Man, this guy is so good. So I'm really looking forward to this conversation. And I |
| 2:14.4 | just want to start with you grew up in a home where your mother was a Catholic and your father was |
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