Mini: Building Mental Flexibility

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We train our bodies and focus on flexibility so that we prevent injury, recover better, and perform at our optimum. But we must also build mental flexibility for the same reason: It prevents us from getting stuck, helps to build resilience, and allows us to perform better in life. There are a few ways that you can work on building this cognitive flexibility. First, challenge the norm. Certain ways of thinking may be in place because "it's always been that way." Challenge this by exposing yourself to new ways of doing and thinking. Practice tolerating the discomfort you feel by doing this more regularly and your capacity for mental flexibility will increase!

LESSONS:

Mental flexibility is important because it allows you to shift perspective and tolerate that which feels different.

Increase your mental flexibility by doing things a new way and putting yourself in a position of challenge.

The more exposed you are to situations that challenge your current line of thinking the stronger your cognitive flexibility will be. .

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

Host: Dr. Lara Pence

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, your Chief Mindoc here at Spartan. Now, today we're talking
0:11.4	about increasing your mental flexibility.
0:15.0	What is that, right?
0:16.8	Well, it's about being more flexible up here,
0:19.9	stretching your perspective, allowing yourself to adjust to certain situations,
0:24.3	certain relationships, in a way that may feel uncomfortable for you.
0:28.3	Listen, we all know what physical stretching is, right?
0:31.0	What being flexible in our body means? Yeah, so when you're out on the
0:34.5	race course, what does it help you do? Prevent injury and help you recover a
0:38.0	little bit better. Well, the same is true in life. When we allow ourselves to be
0:41.8	a little bit more mentally flexible, then we get less bogged down by stress and by those other emotions that sometimes don't make you feel so great, right?
0:49.0	And it can actually improve our relationships and improve our effectiveness at work.
0:54.3	All right, so what are some of the ways that you can become more mentally flexible?
0:58.4	So the first is to question the norm, to question what you've always been doing, right?
1:03.8	So oftentimes over the last decade of working with my clients,
1:07.0	I hear them say things like, well, but I've always done it that way.
1:09.8	Or that's the way it's always been.
1:11.8	Okay, well, just because it's always been that way,
1:13.8	does it have to be that way now, right?
1:15.6	Think about mom's mac and cheese.
1:17.2	Fifteen years ago, it was delicious.
1:19.4	Well, guess what?
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