How to Build Resilience with Steve Magness

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, well-being, and sustainable success.He is coauthor of the best selling Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox. In his coaching practice, Steve works with executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes on their performance and mental skills. He also serves as a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top teams in professional sports.

In this episode, Eric and Steve discuss his book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness.

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Steve Magness and I Discuss How to Build Resilience and …

His book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
Asking ourselves if our inner voice is fair, rather than good or bad
How we handle difficult things better when we feel secure and supported
Defining toughness as navigating discomfort to make the best decision you can
Understanding the importance of confidence in toughness
Quiet internal confidence is about being realistic in our ability and the difficulty of the task at hand.
How doubt is a necessary component of confidence
A central component of internal confidence and motivation is seeing progress
How consistency and taking small steps is what matters most
Accurate appraisal of both the challenges we face and our internal feelings
Understanding that feelings are the body’s communication system
The importance of awareness and contextualization when dealing with feelings and emotions
Dealing with the two types of inner dialogue – integrated and confrontational
Learning to shift your self talk to 2nd or 3rd person voice
How stress narrows our perspective and amplifies negative feelings

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0:00.0	What the research shows is that separating out what we feel is important to getting to
0:06.8	that next step of doing something about it and taking action.
0:11.1	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:21.1	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:25.8	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many
0:32.1	of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:35.5	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:40.2	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:43.1	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:46.6	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:50.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:54.9	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:59.2	how they feed their good wolf.
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1:43.7	your favorite shows.
1:45.4	Thanks for joining us.
1:46.6	Our guest on this episode is Steve Magnus, a world renowned expert on performance, well-being
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