Weird & Wonderful Ways to Build Mental Resilience with Ben Aldridge
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What are the best ways to build mental resilience? Today’s guest teaches us how to create weird and wonderful challenges to push through resistance and overcome anxiety.
Ben Aldridge is the bestselling author of How to be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable: 43 Weird & Wonderful Ways to Build a Strong, Resilient Mindset. Ben’s crippling anxiety prevented him from living fully. In his search for a solution, he discovered that the more he tested himself in controlled environments, the more his anxiety diminished. Since then, he continues to push himself by accomplishing the strange and seemingly impossible.
In this episode, Ben explains how to plan mental, physical, and skill-based challenges that will accelerate our growth and develop a tolerance for being uncomfortable. He talks about how we can leave our comfort zones, face our fears, and increase our confidence. He also tells us how we can help our kids build mental resilience with weird and wonderful challenges!
Are you ready to get uncomfortable and build a more resilient mindset?
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:25.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:29.0 | What's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm excited about today's show because it's all about |
| 0:38.0 | building resilience by doing weird and wonderful things. So are you confused yet? That's okay. Don't worry, you won't be for long because my |
| 0:47.1 | my guest today is best-selling author Ben Aldridge who's written an incredible book called How to be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable, 43 weird and wonderful ways to build a strong resilient mindset. |
| 1:04.0 | Ben writes about practical philosophy, |
| 1:06.5 | comfort zones, mental health, and adventure. |
| 1:10.5 | And his book is an exploration of unique ways to leave our comfort zones, |
| 1:15.0 | face our fears, overcome our anxieties, |
| 1:19.0 | heavily influenced by Stoicism, Buddhism, popular psychology, and CBT. |
| 1:25.0 | Ben challenges us to get uncomfortable and experience personal growth that we can only |
| 1:31.4 | gain by pushing our personal limits. |
| 1:35.0 | So today what he's going to talk about is, number one, his approach to dealing with severe and debilitating anxiety. |
| 1:43.6 | He's keen to share his experiences with panic attacks and all kinds of stigmas that surround |
| 1:49.1 | mental health. |
| 1:50.6 | He's also going to share challenges that he has completed in order to build mental |
| 1:56.5 | resilience. He's also going to share philosophies and ideas that have helped him |
| 2:01.0 | complete these challenges and if that have It's so entertaining. Honestly, you guys will absolutely love it. |
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