Grit Over Gift with Dr. Cindra Kamphoff
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
- The world's best are gritty.
- The world's best are clear on their purpose.
- The world's best become a master of their thoughts.
- The world's best know themselves to master yourself.
- The world's best dominate the controllables.
- The world's best own the moment.
- The world's best choose empowering emotions.
- The world's best own who they are.
- The world's best live and let go.
- The world's best choose their courage zone.
In her more than sixteen years coaching elite runners, Olympians, championship teams, executives, and entrepreneurs, world renowned performance psychologist Dr. Cindra Kamphoff has discovered these ten practices to be consistent among the world's very best.
In her book, Beyond Grit: Ten Powerful Practices to Gain the High-Performance Edge, Dr. Kamphoff explains why each of these practices is important to discovering your purpose, "owning your why," and boosting your performance through drive and grit, which Dr. Kamphoff argues prove more important than talent.
Dr. Kamphoff is the Director and Founder of the Center of Sport and Performance Psychology, founder of the High Performance Mindset Podcast, a professor in Performance Psychology at Minnesota State University, and a longtime marathoner.
Today Dr. Kamphoff will share with us a little about those 10 practices, and how we can develop them to achieve stronger, more confident running.
Questions Dr. Kamphoff is asked:
4:01 What sparked your passion for running and how did that turn into a career in Performance Psychology?
6:19 What inspired you to write your book Beyond Grit?
10:14 What are the 10 Practices you discuss in your book?
17:14 Which of the 10 Practices have you had to work on the most?
19:22 How can runners benefit from knowing their own strengths and weaknesses and how can they identify them?
24:02 Why is "Grit" more powerful than "Gift"?
28:04 How can people keep their 'Why" centered in their lives?
33:26 How did your experience at the 2013 Boston Marathon reinforce your "Why" and how did it change your approach to coaching?
39:16 How does your Beyond Grit workshop help people gain confidence and push past their comfort zone?
41:37 What else is in the works for you?
Quotes by Dr. Kamphoff:
"Grit really means staying passionate and persistent for your very long term goals."
"Self-awareness is foundational to high performance, and it's foundational to you being at your best consistently."
"If you 'think' it, that's not going to be as intentional, but if you 'ink' it, that's really key."
"I really like this quote by Simon [Sinek] - he said, 'Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress, but working hard for something we love is called passion.'"
Take a Listen on Your Next Run
Want more awesome interviews and advice? Subscribe to our iTunes channel
Mentioned in this podcast:
Follow Dr. Kamphoff on Twitter
Follow Dr. Kamphoff on Facebook
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Today on the Run to the Top podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | And there's so many things in racing and in life we can't control and we can let that suck our energy or we can dominate the controllable. |
| 0:14.7 | And I use that word dominate because it's a really strong word. |
| 0:18.0 | And what I see is that the best do is like whenever they're focusing on something they can't |
| 0:21.9 | control, they bring their attention back on something they can't control, |
| 0:22.5 | they bring their attention back to what they can. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.2 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:42.0 | Now here's your host, |
| 0:43.5 | Shinnade Hockey. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey guys, this is Shinnade back with you again for this latest episode of Rent-The-top, |
| 0:51.0 | brought to you by Runners Connect. Thank you so much for taking the time to join me today. I hope you're having a wonderful day so far and that this podcast makes it even better. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm so excited to introduce you to our guest today, but before I do that, I just want to |
| 1:06.4 | fill you in a little bit on last week's episode, just in case you missed it. I sat down with |
| 1:11.8 | author, nutritionist, and runner Matt Fitzgerald who has written several books and |
| 1:17.2 | articles on the psychology running including his popular book How Bad Do You Want It, |
| 1:23.0 | Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle. |
| 1:26.0 | During the interview, Matt discusses what all goes into a runner's mental capacity |
| 1:32.0 | and share some tips as to how we can better push our limits. |
| 1:37.0 | Matt will also be speaking at our 2017 Mental Training Summit in just a few days, where 15 of the sports most renowned |
| 1:46.3 | Psychologists, authors, and runners will share their insight on how to get over your anxiety, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.