Why Curiosity Improves Performance - SPARTAN MIND ep 018
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Getting curious is the unsung hero of mental toughness. Sometimes our ego likes to play first man and we close ourselves off to the wisdom, expertise, and knowledge of others. But the truth is, when we do this we are actually closing ourselves off to growth, expansion, and enlightenment. The more available we are to learning and taking in what others have to offer the more we can fill our mind with the 'good stuff' and rid ourselves of the junk.
LESSONS:
- Getting curious and becoming available to the expertise and knowledge of others is important in gaining wisdom and getting rid of that which doesn't serve you.
- Get curious by asking the individuals you admire:
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- How do you do it?
- How did you get here?
- What have you learned and know to be true?
- Set aside your ego and become available to new information through books, conversations, podcasts, documentary movies, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get curious. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L here, your chief mind-doc for Spartan Mind Mind, part of the Spartan |
| 0:11.2 | up podcast family. |
| 0:12.3 | Today I'm talking about getting curious. in mind, part of the Spartan Up podcast family. |
| 0:12.6 | Today I'm talking about getting curious. |
| 0:15.3 | And what I mean by getting curious |
| 0:17.1 | is really opening yourself up |
| 0:19.5 | and becoming available to the wisdom, knowledge, |
| 0:22.3 | and expertise of others out there. |
| 0:25.0 | Some of the most mentally tough individuals that I know are curious ones. |
| 0:30.0 | They are seeking information. They are seeking wisdom. Think about Joe Descenta, for example. Why do you think he does all these podcasts? He's curious. He wants to know different answers, right? So when you become available to the wisdom, expertise, and knowledge |
| 0:45.4 | of other people, not only does that sort of elevate your own understanding, but |
| 0:49.7 | it also takes up more important space in your head and you begin to weed out the junk |
| 0:55.0 | that's in your head, right? The stuff that's in there that isn't actually really benefiting |
| 0:58.5 | you or increasing your performance. So I want you to think about what are the ways that you can get curious? What are the ways that you can open yourself up to wisdom, expertise, knowledge of other individuals out there? Whether that's the reading or listening to other podcasts, or asking questions. |
| 1:15.0 | That's one of the best ways is when you're with somebody who interests you, ask them questions. |
| 1:21.0 | How did you get here? How was that done? What was your process? |
| 1:24.8 | That's one way that you can just get curious with the people around you. And doing that, |
| 1:28.9 | I guarantee, is going to increase your mental toughness. It's going to weed out all that junk. |
| 1:33.5 | So let's get curious, together. |
| 1:36.2 | If you like what you hear, spread the word. |
| 1:38.5 | Tell your friends, subscribe and review on iTunes, |
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