Quick Set: Stimulus → Thought → Emotion → Feeling
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Here’s a clip from a conversation Ben had recently with Bryan from the Young & Alive Company. They talk about focus, distraction, the voice in our heads, and what we can learn from the Navy SEALs. Watch the full conversation here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Chasing Excellence. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm a show about living a life of better health and increased fulfillment. |
| 0:06.7 | On Tuesdays we drop full episodes where we answer your questions and dive deep on what |
| 0:11.2 | it means to chase truly matters. |
| 0:13.5 | On Fridays we do a quick set where we either dig through the show's archive for a little |
| 0:17.8 | bits of wisdom worth resurfacing or we grab a snippet from another show. |
| 0:22.0 | We've been on it, we wanted to share this week. |
| 0:24.5 | We have the ladder, we've got a clip from a conversation that Ben had with a YouTube |
| 0:29.9 | channel called Young and Alive. |
| 0:32.5 | Thank you to them. |
| 0:33.5 | Thank you to Brian, who is the host, who you will hear. |
| 0:36.1 | Check out the show notes. |
| 0:37.6 | You can find a link to the full conversation. |
| 0:41.0 | Let's get into the clip. |
| 0:42.8 | So you mentioned focus itself. |
| 0:44.6 | So yes, it's important to know what to focus on, but it all doesn't matter. |
| 0:48.7 | Let's say I prepare as much as I can for this podcast and then I get here and I'm thinking |
| 0:51.9 | about other things. |
| 0:53.1 | So you actually have to be focused while you're doing the activity as well. |
| 0:56.2 | How do you almost train your athletes to be more focused or how does there anything |
| 0:59.8 | that you do to train your focus in general? |
| 1:01.8 | Or does any tips for staying focused while actually doing the things? |
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