EP 667: Voices Within: Navigating the Mind's Mind
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
This podcast episode with Brian "Tosh" Chontosh focuses on the "mind's mind," the inner voice that shapes our thoughts and actions, often seeking comfort and leading to self-sabotage. Tosh emphasizes understanding this influence to improve decision-making and personal growth, particularly in endurance events.
"Diesel Days," derived from military training, combines physical challenges with lessons in leadership and teamwork. This 24-hour event pushes participants through physical and psychological trials, teaching them to navigate internal and external pressures, including an innovative "checking in with the left hand" technique for goal setting and self-reflection. This is a strategy that you can use on a tough run, race or situation in life.
Tosh also discusses building mental resilience and life skills to counteract the mind's mind, highlighting the importance of a safe training environment for pushing limits and learning. The "Hard Way Project" offers a monthly subscription with workouts and methodologies to apply these concepts in practice.
Overall, the episode sheds light on overcoming the mind's mind through awareness, resilience, and competency development, offering practical tools for personal and professional growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody's bullshit works until it doesn't. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm finding that my bullshit is working way beyond where a lot of this other stuff because |
| 0:12.6 | this other stuff wasn't founded with the unique background that I have and fundamentally |
| 0:17.1 | applied in those situations. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome to the Trailhead of Trail Runner Nation. |
| 0:33.1 | We go on virtual trail runs, ultra runs, where we're going to go out and learn about |
| 0:39.6 | how to be a better runner, how to motivate ourselves, how to inspire ourselves, how |
| 0:44.2 | to enjoy the trail, and maybe how to become a better human being. |
| 0:48.9 | Well, if there was ever an episode that that couldn't be truer, it's this episode with |
| 0:55.4 | Brian Contache, we listened to him a few episodes back about rowing across the Atlantic. |
| 1:01.6 | Today, we're going to know and learn what powers Tosh. |
| 1:06.6 | On this week's run, Don, we're going to run with a piece of gear that I don't have yet. |
| 1:11.4 | I ordered it, but I haven't got it. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm hoping that we get it before we go out on our Saturday morning run. |
| 1:18.0 | It is the Zephyr runner wind shell and I got it in the new mountain print. |
| 1:27.4 | We talked about that mountain print before. |
| 1:29.8 | It is freaking amazing. |
| 1:31.6 | I guarantee you, once I have this Zephyr wind shell on, people are going to be stopping |
| 1:38.1 | us. |
| 1:39.1 | We're not going to be doing a lot of running because people are going to stop us and say, |
| 1:41.7 | Hey, where did you get that cool looking wind shell? |
| 1:46.0 | Is that your strategy, Scott? |
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