Dr. Nate Zinsser on Restraining Ego and Building Confidence

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🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to performance psychologist Dr. Nate Zinsser about his new book The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance, the difference between confidence and evidence, how to think about the moments in your life selectively to cultivate confidence, looking for the positive aspects of your life while maintaining objective awareness, and more.

Dr. Nate Zinsser is the director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program. He has been the lead performance psychologist at West Point since 1992. Dr. Zinsser is the author of Dear Dr Psych, the first sport psychology guidebook for youth sport participants, six textbook chapters on building confidence, and an advice column to Sports Illustrated for Kids which ran for 5 years. Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Zinsser lives in Fishkill, NY with his wife of 35 years.

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0:39.2	live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.
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0:50.0	We interview Stoic philosophers.
0:52.7	We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the
1:00.1	challenging issues of our time.
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1:18.2	Hey, it's Ryan.
1:20.3	Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.
1:24.3	It wasn't until my books came out specifically the obstacles the way that I started to hear
1:29.5	from performance coaches, which of course I understood there was a mental skills coach.
1:34.6	I understood that was a thing, but I just, I don't know, I guess never thought of a sports
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