The Power of Positive Thinking - SPARTAN MIND ep. 019
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
The data is pretty clear - the way that you think about yourself impacts your performance. Plain and simple. When you are engaging in more positive thinking patterns and see the world through a more positive lens, your performance in various arenas increases. Whether it's your career, your relationships, or your performance out on the Spartan course, how you come out in the end will depend on the way that you think about yourself and the language you use for yourself. The more positive your thinking, the more improved you can expect your performance.
LESSONS:
- Thinking positively increases your performance in various arenas of life.
- When you engage in more positive thinking patterns, you are more likely to operate with greater confidence and faith in yourself.
- Try to shift away from negative, self-deprecating thoughts and start implementing more positive affirmations and mantras.
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Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk today about the power of positive thinking. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up podcast family. |
| 0:12.0 | So today we're talking about the power of positive. with Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast Family. |
| 0:13.0 | So today we're talking about the power of positive thinking. |
| 0:16.2 | Now, why is positive thinking so important? |
| 0:18.7 | Well, it's really actually quite easy. |
| 0:21.0 | Positive thinking helps improve your performance, right? Whether it's on the |
| 0:24.0 | race course, in relationships, in your career, when you think better about yourself and about the world in general, |
| 0:31.4 | you engage with it more, you lean into things, you move at things with a little bit |
| 0:36.0 | more confidence that you might before. So think of this study, right? There's two groups of people, |
| 0:40.7 | one group of people read a list of neutral statements, and then they take a math |
| 0:44.2 | test. The other group of people read a list of positive statements, and then they take the |
| 0:48.8 | same test. Which group do you think does better? The one reading the positive statements, right? |
| 0:54.0 | Because the more that we think positively, |
| 0:56.2 | the more that we're gonna perform better. |
| 0:58.2 | Do you think those elite athletes are at the starting line thinking, |
| 1:01.1 | hmm, I'm probably not gonna do very well today or I'll probably |
| 1:03.6 | fail the rope no they're thinking I have trained for this I'm prepared for this I've |
| 1:08.2 | got this right and think about those people that are giving presentations at work |
| 1:12.3 | right and they nail it do you think beforehand there's about those people that are giving presentations at work, right? |
| 1:12.8 | And they nail it. |
| 1:13.8 | Do you think beforehand they're thinking, this probably isn't going to go very well. |
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