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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E96: How To Take Full Control Of Your Mind: Prof. Steve Peters, The Chimp Paradox

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to know where to begin with Steve Peters. He’s a doctor, a psychiatrist, a professor and a mental coach for the worlds top athletes and business leaders. He’s also the author of “The Chimp Paradox”, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and put forward the groundbreaking ‘Chimp model’ for understanding how our brains work.

Steve is used to helping the worlds elite to achieve their full potential, from Steven Gerrard and Ronnie O Sullivan to top business leaders and CEOs. His insights are sought after by people all over the world. But today he sits down and shares his wisdom to help you.

Be prepared for this one, we go to some incredible places as Steve shows us what commonly holds people back, and how to overcome it. Steve will show you exactly how being at peace with yourself is the only way to succeed. I’m sure you’ll understand by the end of this why Steve’s insights are so widely sought.

Topics:
  • The basis of your work
  • Mental health
  • The chimp brain
  • How do we understand what drives us?
  • How do we manage our emotional reactions?
  • Stress & Alcoholism
  • Forming habits
  • What does an everyday person do without you?
  • Fear of failure
  • Setting your state in the morning
  • Gratitude

Transcript

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0:00.0

My work now is helping people to optimize performance,

0:03.0

get a good relationship with themselves,

0:04.7

finding a peace, happiness, confidence.

0:07.0

Professor Steve Peters, he's a world leading psychiatrist,

0:10.6

arguably one of the most famous renowned

0:12.8

and important of our time.

0:14.8

You will come out the other side much better.

0:16.8

People do recover from broken relationships.

0:19.2

People don't know what the next relationship will be.

0:22.1

Not everybody is the same.

0:24.4

What tends to happen is people either don't recognize

0:26.8

they're getting stressed and it becomes chronic

0:29.1

and they've got these behaviors which are damaging to them.

0:31.8

As people think stress is where we ring in our hands

0:34.3

and panicking and that's not really true.

0:36.4

Stress comes in all different forms

0:38.0

and often isn't recognized.

0:40.0

Even for people in a much more serious situation

0:42.0

where they become suicidal, you can tell them

0:44.8

with honesty there is always a future

0:46.8

and things do change and feelings do move.

0:50.0

We have to accept that reality.

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