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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Inside the Mind of a Great Competitor: Belief in Yourself // MIND 028

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Great competitors believe that they have the capacity to win and compete in the way that moves them closer to their goals. They build themselves up with confidence and visualize accomplishments instead of defeats. Believing in yourself is a key part of pumping positive medicine into your brain and your body, as the power of positive thinking has been demonstrated across disciplines.

 

LESSONS:

  • A strong belief in your capacity to achieve and get things done is a critical part of being a great competitor.
  • Building up self-confidence and relying on positive self-esteem will help you along your journey and give you an edge against those who don't believe that they can.

 

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CREDITS:

 

Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

Synopsis: Dr. Lara Pence

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk about the importance of believing in yourself.

0:03.3

Hey everyone, it's Dr. L. here,

0:08.7

it's Dr. L. here, Chief Mind Doc for Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast family, were on the fifth

0:16.4

and final part of the five-part series Inside the Mind of a Great Competitor.

0:21.6

And it's no surprise that the five element to having a great

0:24.9

competitive mind is believing in yourself right because when we think better

0:29.9

about ourselves and when we believe in our capacity to get things done, we get them

0:36.2

done.

0:37.2

It's pretty actually as simple as that, right?

0:40.0

And we've got the data behind it. I've done podcasts on it before.

0:43.4

The power of positive thinking is real.

0:46.8

It is grounded in truth.

0:48.2

And by the way, it's grounded in data.

0:51.0

Great competitors understand and know that.

0:53.6

So they're at the starting line, right, of whatever it is that they're doing, whether it's the

0:58.0

starting line of their career or the starting line of a race, thinking to themselves things that make them feel better, things that indicate

1:06.2

that they believe in themselves.

1:07.9

They're not standing at the starting line thinking, well, I'm just not really sure

1:12.0

how great I'm going to do. No they're

1:14.6

standing at the starting line thinking I'm going to nail this I've worked hard

1:19.2

for this I'm going to move forward with intention and action and purpose and I'm going to get this

1:24.4

done because I can, right? They move away from I'll try or maybe to I can. That becomes their mantra. Believing in yourself is such a key

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