EP 76 The Growth Mindset in Practice, Creating Community as an Introvert, and Embracing Failure | with Nsima Inyang
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What do Bodybuilding, Powerlifting, and Jiu-Jitsu all have in common? My guest today. Nsima Inyang is a Professional Bodybuilder, Elite Level Powerlifter, Martial Artist, and a DEEP dude. We get into a lot of mindset principles around failure, measuring progress, and dealing with stagnation. We definitely touch on a lot of different topics but it was a great conversation and one you won't want to miss. Some topics covered today:
- UV Lights and how it affects human beings
- Sleep and how it affects your day to day life
- The Placebo Effect and Beliefs
- The Transition from Powerlifting to Jujitsu
- The Growth Mindset in Practice
- Why Failure is Inevitable
- Progress over Perfection and Comparison Syndrome
- How to Measure Progress Qualitatively
- How Introverts Create Community
- What Nsima Gained from Jujitsu
- What to do about Stagnation
- Nsima's Routines for Personal Development
- Communication Among Men
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on you guys welcome back to Embody Radio. I am your host Emily Duncan today's show is a very |
| 0:07.2 | Very cool one we talk about a lot of different topics today and today's guest actually. |
| 0:13.0 | When Austin and I did our last podcast, Austin brought this particular individual up because he is a large human being. And so some of you guys were like how do we tag him how do we message |
| 0:26.0 | him all this stuff so today we are bringing you in Sima Yang onto the show. Not only is he a very large, very jacked human being, |
| 0:35.4 | he's also a very cool human being with a very cool story |
| 0:38.3 | and a lot of really wonderful perspective. |
| 0:40.2 | I had to kind of sum up what I think of or what I think you guys will get a lot out of from this show and from Insema and historian general is getting really good at putting yourself into uncomfortable situations that make you grow. |
| 0:58.0 | So I know that that's something that a lot of us struggle with, a lot of us battle with is we want to grow but for one we're human |
| 1:04.8 | and we avoid the uncomfortable and for two we don't know how to put ourselves out |
| 1:09.1 | there you know in the show we talk about because in SEMA is like me and he is a more introverted |
| 1:13.6 | individual so like how do we put ourselves out there how do we get over that |
| 1:16.8 | mental emotional and sometimes physical hump of like ah like just feeling very |
| 1:21.8 | out of our element and how do we, how do we start doing that? |
| 1:25.6 | How do we pursue growth even when it feels kind of icky? |
| 1:29.2 | So, and see him as a really cool guy with a really awesome story and I can't wait for you guys to hear it. |
| 1:34.1 | We also touch on some of the topics of like stereotypical masculinity and just hearing about |
| 1:39.2 | that from a man's perspective and how we can improve kind of the culture that we're in right now. |
| 1:44.8 | So a lot of really cool topics today and I don't want to keep you guys waiting. |
| 1:49.3 | So we're going to get into this interview with Insema Young. And before we do, if you could, go over. |
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