Do Hard Things
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
National Bestseller
""In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and anyone else looking to prepare for life's biggest challenges."" -- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History podcast
From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things.
Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us.
Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, rebuilds our broken model of resilience with one grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things, Magness teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating inner strength. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience:
Pillar 1- Ditch the Façade, Embrace RealityPillar 2- Listen to Your BodyPillar 3- Respond, Instead of React Pillar 4- Transcend Discomfort
Smart and wise all at once, Magness flips the script on what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life’s challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people.
Customer Reviews
Amazing book
Life changing book I absolutely love it
Incomplete
The author has very interesting theories on how to lead and what toughness is. However, in many of his examples he cites studies to show how “effective” an idea is, but rarely actually cites statistics on how these ideas worked in the real world. He demonizes “old school” coaching strategies and praises newer, more player based strategies. This all, neglecting the fact that different people are motivated by different tactics.
Good, could be great
The attempt to bring politics into this book is a huge miss in chapters 10 & 11. Unfortunately, data shared. Later in the book suggests a narrow view of the data to detract from a great book. A rewrite would be in order.
Aside from this, great book.