The Science of Getting Psyched Up

The Art of Manliness

Philosophy, Education, Society & Culture

4.7 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

If you’re an athlete, you know that it can be helpful to get psyched up before a big game. But getting in the right mindset is important in any kind of high-stakes scenario, whether you want to perform your best in a big meeting, presentation, interview, audition, or conversation.

My guest has some tips he gleaned from interviewing athletes, soldiers, entertainers, and executives on how to find that mindset. His name is Daniel McGinn, and he’s the author of Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed. The first step to getting into an optimal mindset is managing negative emotions, so we begin our conversation with what works in mitigating stress and anxiety. From there we talk about how to get others psyched up with an effective pep talk and why the leaders who came out of WWII used the classic rah-rah style more than leaders do today. We then discuss the role of music in getting yourself psyched up and what Daniel learned from the DJ for the Red Sox about crafting the perfect pump-up playlist. Daniel shares how visualization and having a personal highlight reel can put you in a positive headspace, and whether or not anger, competition, and trash talk improve performance.

Resources Related to the Podcast

Connect With Daniel McGinn

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:11.7	If you're an athlete, you know that it can be helpful to get psyched up before a big
0:14.6	game.
0:15.6	But getting in the right mindset is important in any kind of high-stake scenario.
0:19.2	Whether you want to perform your best in big meeting, presentation, interview, audition,
0:23.5	or conversation.
0:24.8	My guest has some tips he gleaned from interviewing athletes, soldiers, entertainers, and executives
0:29.3	on how to find that mindset.
0:31.2	His name is Daniel McGinn, and he's the author of Psyched Up.
0:34.0	How the science of mental preparation can help you succeed.
0:37.0	The first step to getting into an optimal mindset is managing negative emotions.
0:40.4	So we begin our conversation with what works in mitigating stress and anxiety.
0:45.0	From there we talk about how to get other psyched up with an effective pep talk, and why
0:48.2	the leaders who came out of World War II used the classic raw rostyle more than leaders
0:52.2	do today.
0:53.6	We then discuss the role of music in getting yourself psyched up, and what Daniel learned
0:56.8	from the DJ for the Red Sox about crafting the perfect pump up playlist.
1:00.9	Daniel shares how visualization and having a personal highlight reel can put you in a positive
1:04.5	headspace, and whether or not anger, competition, and trash talk improve performance.
1:09.8	After the show is over, check out our show notes at aam.is slash psyched up.
1:26.8	All right.
1:33.2	Daniel McGinn, welcome to the show.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Art of Manliness, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Art of Manliness and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.