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The Rich Roll Podcast

Steve Magness: Do Hard Things — The Science of Resilience

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

A cornerstone of this podcast is exploring why we should all Do Hard Things—which just so happens to be the title of today’s guest’s latest book. Meet Steve Magness. Making his third (but first solo) appearance on the show, Steve is a former elite track and field athlete (4:01 miler), elite coach turned author, and world-renowned expert on all things high performance. In addition, Steve consults on mental skills development for professional sports teams—including some of the top teams in the NBA—and has coached numerous professional athletes to the Olympics and world championship level. Today Steve walks us through a new approach to unlocking true toughness and physical and mental resilience—and how to best lead others to optimal performance. Today’s episode is also viewable on YouTube: bit.ly/stevemagness686 More about Steve + show notes: bit.ly/richroll686 This one is a combination of great stories and actionable takeaways—I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:30.9

The easiest way to make an athlete worse is to take away autonomy.

0:37.3

Your most important job is not to get them faster or have them do better or higher grades or

0:44.4

whatever have you. It's to develop the joy of whatever pursuits they're doing.

0:50.6

And if you can do that, like the rest takes care of itself. The environment impacts you more

0:55.5

than you were less. More than we count for. I want healthy, happy human beings who can use sport

1:02.9

as a way to challenge and push boundaries and like find themselves and like struggle and all those

1:08.0

things. But we can do it in a way that makes them grow as individuals. And if we do that, like who cares

1:13.8

if you run 401 or 355. The best thing that you can do as a leader to create resilient teams is

1:21.5

to be authentic and support people in a way that helps them be authentic in what they're doing.

1:37.6

The Rich Roll Podcast

1:39.6

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the podcast where we have devoted many, many episodes to the subject

1:46.5

of why it's important to do hard things, which just so happens to be the title of today's guest

1:54.9

latest book. His name is Steve Magnus. And if that rings familiar, it might be because this marks

2:00.8

his third, but also his first solo appearance on the show. His first two appearances accompanied

2:07.6

by recent guest Brad Stolberg. For those unfamiliar, Steve is a former elite track and field athlete

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