Learning To Learn, Discipline, And The 3 Step Process To Self Awareness With Thane Marcus — The Strong Coach #17
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Thane Marcus has spent the past four years deep diving into personal development. Although the object of that development was the arena of professional golf, the subject of that development was himself. During Thane's golf career, he left no stone unturned in regards to maximizing his human potential. This ceaseless striving has given him a strong grasp of the process involved in producing his best work, whether that be within an office, sweating in the gym, or for the business he's creating.
The main service that Thane is providing is what he calls Collaboration — Development and Performance Coaching (a combination of Coaching, Consulting, and Creating).
Along with these services, Thane is committed to providing consistent and thought-provoking content through written blog-posts each month, and through the content he produces on The Up & Comers Show. He says that this is as much selfish as it is selfless - since writing is an exercise which gives him more life than he can share with others in return. From the podcast he co-hosts, to the events he speaks at, to the blogs he writes, and the books he authors, Thane is blessed to be able to learn through many different forms of communication that each facilitate different neurological connections. His goal is for this content to stimulate greater thought, contemplation, and growth in the lives of all who read or listen.
In this episode we talk about Thane's background, how we can learn how to learn, why we settle and how to prevent it, the lack of discipline in modern society, the 3 step process to self awareness, picking a path and sticking to it, the virus called complaining, the 7-10 years it takes to get to mastery, and much more!
Come join us at www.thestrongcoach.com
-Mike
Episode Breakdown:
⚡️0-10: Thane's Background, the human tendency to fantasizing about the good while forgetting the bad, and how we can learn how to learn (hint: failure is a large part of it)
⚡️11-20: Why we settle and how to prevent it, the power of intention, and modern societies lack of discipline
⚡️21-30: Building your environment to support the lifestyle you want to live, the cycle of expending and accumulating energy, and if you can't self observe than you can't self correct
⚡️31-40: Simple does not mean easy, #adulting, the 3 step process to self awareness, and priming vs. planning
⚡️ 41-50: Creating alignment in your life, reality is always different than your expectations, and how daily resets can put your ego in check
⚡️51-60: The need for society to refocus on raising kids, there is no limit for better, pick a path and commit to it, and the virus called complaining
⚡️61-75: Everything in the world is related, it takes 7-10 years of work to get to mastery, burn the boat, and how more information is creating more fear
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| 0:00.0 | The voice in my head is a liar. I've been on quite the journey since Barbell Shrug started up back in early 2012 |
| 0:07.2 | Going online and posting podcasts has been the foundation for most of my personal growth |
| 0:12.8 | It was within weeks that I recognized that I wanted to be intentional with how I showed up |
| 0:17.7 | With how people saw me I also realized that I wear my heart on my sleeve and being one way on the podcast and on camera and being different in my daily life |
| 0:26.0 | was gonna be really challenging |
| 0:28.2 | So I surrendered I |
| 0:30.2 | Surrendered who I was for who I wanted to be I gave up a lot of habits judgments and language that I knew would not serve me or the listeners |
| 0:38.7 | I |
| 0:39.5 | Changed the conversations I was having in my daily life and in turn changed the conversation I was having with myself |
| 0:45.6 | I |
| 0:46.6 | Didn't know it at the time, but I was taking my personal development to the next level |
| 0:52.0 | This led me to ask myself bigger questions and find out what made me tick |
| 0:56.2 | I started questioning a lot of what I previously considered as truth I started questioning everything one by one |
| 1:03.6 | Each domino fell I started hanging out with different people I tried things that I thought I'd never try |
| 1:09.8 | Things that I was convinced I'd hate I |
| 1:12.4 | Also knew that the voice in my head is a liar that voice is born out of fear |
| 1:17.6 | My curiosity and my questions have taken me down a path a path I never could have imagined |
| 1:24.4 | Fear has become a sign a sign of where I should go the questions are the guide and my fears the path if it scares the shit out of me |
| 1:33.0 | Then I must this path has led me to my greatest joy the version of myself that feels the most free the most happy the most impactful |
| 1:42.4 | This path has led me to hold retreats to travel the path and show you how to start your own path to pass on the methods that got me to who I am |
| 1:52.2 | This is the purpose of the strong coach. This is the purpose of training camp for the soul and |
| 1:57.5 | Next week I'm visiting soltara to investigate whether I will hold a retreat down in Costa Rica later this year |
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