Inside the Mind of a Great Competitor: Ownership // MIND 027
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Great competitors believe that they have control over the things that happen in their lives and they take ownership of those choices. They do not offload poor performance to circumstances outside of them. They take ownership for the choices - both those that make them stronger (both mentally and physically) and those that put them in circumstances of struggle. Ownership is about believing that you have a strong internal locus of control - that you can control the direction of your life.
LESSONS:
- Try to remember that you always have a choice; that you have more control over your life when you believe that you have more control.
- Take ownership of the decisions that you make, whether they are your accomplishments or your poor choices.
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Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about taking ownership. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey everyone, it's Dr. L. here, |
| 0:08.0 | Chief Mind Doc for Spartan Mind, |
| 0:12.0 | part of the Spartan Up Podcast family. |
| 0:14.4 | We're on part four of the five-part series of inside the mind of a great competitor. |
| 0:19.8 | And today we're talking about taking ownership. |
| 0:23.7 | Great competitors have what's called an internal locust of control, |
| 0:28.9 | which basically means that they believe that the world can be control of their own life and basically move forward with intention |
| 0:37.0 | because their actions are going to control their life. |
| 0:44.0 | If you have an external locus of control, that basically means that you're offloading |
| 0:49.3 | all of your choices and |
| 0:55.0 | it decisions and decisions on to other individuals and not taking ownership for the things in your life. |
| 0:58.0 | It's basically believing that you don't really have control of your life, everybody else does, |
| 0:59.0 | and it's almost like playing a victim role really. |
| 1:02.0 | Internal locus of control again is really |
| 1:04.2 | about taking ownership knowing that you have control to make choices and |
| 1:09.4 | decisions that move you forward. So great competitors have a high internal locus of control |
| 1:15.9 | because they believe that it's their actions and their choices and their decisions |
| 1:20.5 | that move them forward. They know that they make the choice to get up |
| 1:24.6 | every day and go with their training program. They understand that every |
| 1:29.7 | decision they make in terms of what they put into their body is going to impact their |
| 1:33.2 | performance. How they relate to other individuals is going to impact their day which |
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